American democracy is in crisis. The most visible sign came on Jan. 6, 2021 when a violent mob was summoned by then-President Donald Trump. The outcome of the 2020 presidential election, and the life of Vice President Mike Pence, were both threatened.
In February 2022, the American Bar Association passed a resolution urging the United States Supreme Court to adopt ethics rules similar to the ones that apply to all other federal judges. The resolution was passed in the wake of an investigation by the Wall Street Journal finding that betwee…
Suppose that over a month or two, prices doubled. Would that be a crisis? Would it be a crisis if the number of people out of work doubled? Or the number of drug overdoses doubled, or car crashes or burglaries?
Don’t feel dismayed if you have no idea what’s going on at our southern border.
Officials at Stanford University could learn something from the New York City Police Department about defending free speech while maintaining order. When hecklers prevented an invited speaker from addressing an audience at Stanford's law school, what could have been a peaceful protest turned…
Administration owns deaths of 13 service members, while Trump owns 'surrender'
Before pocket calculators became the norm, more than a few teachers insisted that slide rules were essential to learning. Today, they have become educational artifacts.
Commentary: After questions were raised about luxury trips Justice Clarence Thomas took with a Republican mega-donor, urgent action is necessary in order to regain the public's trust.
🎧 The hosts discuss how the recent revelations about Clarence Thomas further erodes the trust many Americans have in their government.
NASA recently announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The expedition will boost humans out of an Earth-bound orbit for the first time since 1972 and put them into orbit around the moon, in preparation for subsequent mis…
Maybe it is because I am preparing to launch one of my children off to college, but I have been thinking a lot about inflection points in life. The Republican Party is also at one of those points. The party, like my daughter, needs to decide what it wants to be and whether it wants to win. But unlike my daughter, I am afraid there will be no turning back for the GOP once it chooses its fate.
Better recruitment at younger ages can help fill shortage, destigmatize rewarding career
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Let me be explicitly clear: I will have no part in a debt ceiling negotiation that includes cuts to Social Security or Medicare.
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Saudi Arabia — in the news for cutting oil production and pushing up the price of gas — is also making headlines for perhaps a more unusual reason: golf.
Two worlds have collided in professional golf’s biggest event in recent days as top players from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed upstart league, compete in the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Tensions are running high after a group of elite players defected from the PGA t…
They’re going to take my AR-15.
Another election fought about abortion goes their way, despite Biden’s unpopularity
Making themselves hostage to the Saudi Crown prince is unwise
He needs to get off the floor against Trump
Every American should be able see the full proceedings of the criminal case in Manhattan court
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Eight tips to help you have a successful job search.
🎧 The hosts discuss which students are a good fit for higher education and why an increasing number are looking at other options after high school.
On this episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast we discuss the difficult tasks of reducing extremism and radicalization in the U.S. as well as improving our political discourse.
I recently heard about a friend who was reluctant to go to a community program on politics because she didn’t want to “enter a room filled with anger, hostility and a climate of distrust.”
In the fall of 1989, I was doing research into the ways people justify doing harm to others. Sitting in the lower levels of the Johns Hopkins library, methodically working my way through a pile of readings on cruelty, I opened a book by Philip Hallie. There I found a description of a moment …
Commentary: Holocaust survivors teach us that we need to build communities filled with people committed to goodness
🎧 The hosts discuss how this movement has affected society and how our focus on the culture wars often drowns out more important issues facing Americans.
On the short list of tall irritants are highly insecure people. You know the signs.
Several months ago, the Logan High School social studies department wrote a guest editorial encouraging voters to defeat the proposed consolidation of Logan and Central high schools.
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