Resentment behind the waning patriotism of liberal Americans
You wouldn't think, five years into the Obama presidency, that so many liberal Americans wouldn't like America. A new Pew survey found that 44 percent of Americans don't often feel...
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Birth control is not your boss’s business
Abortion-rights protesters gathered outside the U.S. Supreme Court building on Monday holding signs that read "Birth Control: Not My Boss's Business." Much to their chagrin, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito...
A questionable game of ‘shut up’ on Iraq
It's a fact of human nature that it's easier to talk about who's to blame for a problem than it is to figure out what to do about the problem....
The naked self-interest of the bureaucratic class
For understandable reasons, the IRS scandal has largely focused on the political question of whether the White House deliberately targeted opponents. To date there's no evidence that it did. That's...
The IRS email scandal: Where’s the outrage?
"Congressional investigators are fuming over revelations that the Internal Revenue Service has lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy." That's...
Obama has painted himself into a foreign-policy corner
The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring. Across a huge swath of what, up until recently, had been known as Iraq and Syria, a transnational movement of...
Mass killers hold culture — and country — hostage
Can we please stop holding the country hostage to crazy people? Every year a tiny number of mentally ill people go on horrific killing sprees. It just happened in California....
Hillary’s dilemma: How to distance herself from Obama
Hillary Clinton is in a pickle. She's a shoe-in for her party's presidential nomination because of Barack Obama's failures. But those failures might keep her from getting the job. Her...
The peculiar madness of ‘trigger warnings’
Trigger warning: I am going to make fun of "trigger warnings." Of course, if you're the sort of person who takes trigger warnings very seriously, you probably don't read this...
Moral compass points toward retribution in Nigeria
Here's a question. If -- and this is a big if -- the United States could dispatch a swarm of heretofore secret super-drones to find and kill every member of...