10/30/25
When ideology takes top priority, America’s world leadership is in jeopardy. The Trump administration’s threats to academic freedom at leading American universities could slow the pace of the nation’s scientific [...]
Read More → Posted October 30, 2025in Morain
									
            	                				
                				Posted October 30, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		When ideology takes top priority, America’s world leadership is in jeopardy. The Trump administration’s threats to academic freedom at leading American universities could slow the pace of the nation’s scientific [...]
Read More → Posted October 16, 2025in Morain
									
            	                				
                				Posted October 16, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		As I write this column on Sunday, October 12, the United States government is still shut down. Federal employee are not getting paid. No, wait, that’s not quite true. MOST [...]
Read More → Posted October 09, 2025in Morain
									
            	                				
                				Posted October 09, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		Kathy and I returned last Friday from three days in the Black Hills, communing with two of my graduate school former housemates and their spouses. It’s a reunion that takes [...]
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                				Posted September 25, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		Last March, six months ago, Congress averted an impending federal government shutdown by reaching a bipartisan compromise, which extended the government funding deadline by six months, to the end of [...]
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                				Posted September 18, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		A CALL FOR RADICAL MODERATION Another political leader killed, and another frustrating challenge on what to say, what to do. Charlie Kirk’s death resurfaces similar tragedies from our American past, [...]
Read More → Posted September 11, 2025in Morain
									
            	                				
                				Posted September 11, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		Why does Congress even bother to debate an annual budget? Every year members of the federal legislative body spend innumerable hours in committees and on the House and Senate floor [...]
Read More → Posted September 04, 2025in Morain
									
            	                				
                				Posted September 04, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		College football is here once again, and fans are geared up to cheer on their treasured favorite(s). What stokes such ferocious lifetime loyalty to a bunch of guys playing a [...]
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                				Posted August 28, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		The No Kings Act should be the law of the land A year ago this month, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, introduced the No Kings [...]
Read More → Posted August 21, 2025in Morain
									
            	                				
                				Posted August 21, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		American pundits are prone to designate their immediate time period, whenever it happens to be, as a “turning point.” When the political situation balances on a knife’s edge, as it [...]
Read More → Posted August 14, 2025in Morain
									
            	                				
                				Posted August 14, 2025in Morain
				
				
			
				
		The Democratic presidential nomination appears to be wide open today. No shortage of obvious hopefuls, with another batch who are probably mulling it over. More will pop their heads up [...]
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