Has anyone ever been better qualified to be president? Hillary Clinton was a player throughout her husband’s time as Governor of Arkansas, helping with appointments and reshaping education policy. When she was First Lady she had an office in the West Wing and political power to go with it. She then became Senator for New […]
In a $10 billion lawsuit filed against the Federal Communications Commission last week, TV distributor Byron Allen and the National Association of African American-Owned Media allege that the Commission’s merger review policy has encouraged racial discrimination in the television industry. According to the complaint, the FCC silences diverse voices on television by enabling purported racists […]
Has anyone ever been better qualified to be president? Hillary Clinton was a player throughout her husband’s time as Governor of Arkansas, helping with appointments and reshaping education policy. When she was First Lady she had an office in the West Wing and political power to go with it. She then became Senator for New […]
Nearly 40 years ago political scientist Jeanne Kirkpatrick wrote an analysis of US foreign policy for Commentary Magazine entitled, Dictatorships & Double Standards, which served to define President Ronald Reagan’s successful foreign policy. Pulitzer Prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens discusses the Kirkpatrick doctrine’s relevance four decades later with CapX US Editor Abby […]
One of the most contentious provisions of 2010’s Dodd-Frank Act, which represented Washington’s response to the financial crisis, was the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Now, litigation from the PHH Corporation, offers the public a front row seat to whether the controversy was justified. The initial proposal for the CFPB, introduced by […]
The road to unemployment is paved with good intentions. Washington, D.C.’s first installment of its minimum wage increase, from $8.25 to $9.50, which took effect in July 2014, came at a cost of approximately 2,400 service-sector jobs in the following twelve months. If Washington’s voters pass the $15 minimum wage that is on the ballot […]
The US President Barrack Obama is expected to visit Great Britain in May. According to the British media, Obama will urge the British voters to reject Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in a referendum later this year. Such an intervention in a decision-making of a democratic nation state is hypocritical and counterproductive. American officials […]
What an amazing situation is unfolding as we pass the sixth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. I’m reminded of this by an email from a progressive group called Public Citizen, which wants to overturn Citizens United with a Constitutional amendment. Its alert says that the legislature in New York is but […]
President Obama had one really memorable line during last night’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. “It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse,” he admitted. Given that Obama himself is nearly single-handedly responsible for all that […]
The standoff in eastern Oregon is the result of more than a century of increasingly politicized management of federal lands that cover half the West. These lands belong to everyone, but Congress has used them to give favors to the most powerful interest groups. At one time, ranchers had that power, but those days are […]
In his latest piece for The Atlantic Magazine, chairman of the reform coalition Common Good Philip K. Howard writes about the need for a negotiated bargain between Congressional Democrats and Republicans to reform and pay for needed infrastructure repair. Howard, who has written persuasively and often about the need for common sense regulatory and judicial […]
UberEATS is delicious. You pull up the Uber app, choose among three to five menu options (usually between $8 and $12), and your meal is delivered within 10 minutes. Payment is through Uber, and there is no delivery fee. Service is rapidly expanding, and slow-to-catch-up regulators have yet to devise a way to stymie its […]
Today, the Supreme Court considers whether public sector employees are allowed to opt out of unions. Rebecca Friedrichs is suing the California Teachers Association on the grounds that compulsory union membership violates principles of free speech and association. Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association will be decided by June, 2016. Friedrichs wants to opt out of the […]
A subject that hasn’t come up nearly enough during the presidential campaign thus far is economic mobility. Marco Rubio talks about his family’s rise from humble circumstances to his run for the presidency and Hillary Clinton wants to help the middle class, certainly. But the reason we may not hear enough about solving poverty and […]
Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders has joined environmental organizations, and members of the media, urging the US Department of Justice investigate Exxon Mobil and other energy companies under the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). “Exxon Mobil knew the truth about fossil fuels and climate change and lied to protect their business model at […]
Obamacare compels Americans to buy health insurance, yet the Obama administration still can’t get people to buy it. So far, about 60 percent of the newly insured under Obamacare have merely been dumped into Medicaid, rather than enrolled in private insurance. It’s not hard to see why Americans aren’t eager to pony up for Obamacare-compliant plans. Opponents have […]
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