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Here's One Way to Demand Rational Government Nov. 16, 2023
In a world where economic decisions are mostly driven by short-term goals and political pressures, t... Read More
Mr. Speaker, No Time To Abandon Policy That Made America Great Nov. 01, 2023
I was gratified to learn that Mike Johnson, the newly elected Republican speaker of the House of Rep... Read More
Clueless on Gaza Oct. 13, 2023
Six weeks after 9/11, I thought I perceived a "new American thoughtfulness" in response to the attac... Read More
Debate Haters Keep Declaring Them Pointless Sep. 29, 2023
We've been subjected to years of lectures about how Republicans are a "threat to democracy," but wat... Read More
Whatever State Leaders Claim, Missouri Is a Dangerous Place To Be a Kid Sep. 26, 2023
Missouri politicians who claim to care deeply about the welfare of the state's children have some od... Read More
Schools Should Get Control of the Phones Sep. 22, 2023
The failures of our K-12 educational establishment are no secret. All over the country, schools pass... Read More
Sharp Rise in Poverty Requires a Call to Action Sep. 22, 2023
Census Bureau data released earlier this month showed an increase in the number of Americans who are... Read More
The Crisis in Liberal Cities: The Tug of War Between Ideals and Realities Sep. 01, 2023
America's cities have always been the melting pots of change and progress. Historically, they have w... Read More
The Crisis in Liberal Cities: The Tug of War Between Ideals and Realities Aug. 31, 2023
America's cities have always been the melting pots of change and progress. Historically, they have w... Read More
Privacy Versus Safe Streets: Hard Choice Aug. 08, 2023
I had a tough argument with a friend who was incensed that our local police had placed traffic camer... Read More
Trump on the World Stage Was Cringeworthy Jul. 14, 2023
One of the most absurd claims the leading candidate for the GOP nomination makes about himself and h... Read More
Cocaine In the White House Jul. 12, 2023
In his memoir "Beautiful Things," Hunter Biden writes about the time he left his wallet in a rental ... Read More
Corruption Is About Policy, Not Just Money Jun. 29, 2023
Back in 1998, iconic feminist Gloria Steinem wrote a now-infamous editorial defending then-President... Read More
Josh Hawley, Eric Schmitt, Cori Bush Declined To Be Grownups on Debt Ceiling Jun. 06, 2023
The good news is that last week's debt-ceiling deal established there are still some grownups in Con... Read More
War With Taiwan? It Would Be Our Craziest War Ever. Mar. 17, 2023
America and the West have begun promoting the idea of a war against China over Taiwan. If China inva... Read More
More Caught Illegally Crossing Southern Border in Fiscal 2022 Than During Entire Trump Presidency Mar. 15, 2023
"Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States." So says ... Read More
Questioning Biden's Ukraine Policy Doesn't Make You an 'Isolationist' Mar. 03, 2023
It's not exactly a sign of a healthy democratic discourse that it's virtually impossible to ask a cr... Read More
Let's Base Policy on Real Facts, Not Misleading Statistics Jan. 06, 2023
From all those lists of best books of 2022, here's one with the potential to change public policy de... Read More
Biden's Racism Aug. 31, 2022
Unless you're a person of color or a favored minority, brace yourself to be treated unfairly by the ... Read More
Politics as the Leisure of the Theory Class Jun. 03, 2022
Politics has increasingly become, for many Americans, the leisure of the theory class. That's a phra... Read More
