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Alfred Thayer Mahan would be appalled. The great 19th century strategist and navalist surely would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the country with which we are most likely to fight a devastating war — and a traditional land power, no less — to dominate global shipbuilding. ...
President Donald Trump and the GOP have called themselves the party of free speech. But since taking office, the president has been tightening up his definition of freedom like a hangman’s noose. We could hear it in the White House’s Orwellian decision in February to revoke the Associated ...
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a ...
A man with a long track record of corruption took office as president in January. In his second term, he’s surrounding himself with like-minded cabinet secretaries and agency heads. It’s a fact that Donald J. Trump is a felon, convicted by a unanimous state jury of 34 counts of corruptly ...
This is not a Republican illusion. The political leanings of academia are very real. Most professors identify as liberal and Democrats. University administrators skew left as well. It’s striking how few professors are conservative or Republican. The imbalance began during the Reagan ...
If an investment yields stagnant or negative returns despite increased funding, the rational thing to do is back off. This logic rarely applies in government, but we’re in a unique moment. The U.S. Department of Education — which has long exemplified the sunk-cost fallacy with past ...
