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How to preserve liberty

You can shape the outcome of the trends shaping today's top stories. Over the last several weeks, we've dug deeply into the topic of liberty. We've seen how rare freedom is both historically and globally. We've examined America's Christian roots. We've discussed why liberty requires ...

Targets of genocide get accused of committing one

The attempt to massacre Israelis that played out on a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week was both extraordinary and more of the same. The Omani co-pilot stabbed the pilot and tried to seize control of the plane, telling investigators that he intended to crash it at ...

American dream comes with challenges

I shared the September report "Is the American Dream still achievable for younger generations?" with my English composition students this week as we begin our Gen Z and the Workplace theme for their second research essay. I found this report, which is part of the continuing ...

The perfect metaphor

The perfect metaphor to characterize the UN General Assembly delegates who walked out before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke is this: "There are none so blind as those who will not see." You can't make people understand the truth if they choose to ignore it. The problem with ...

Justice's tenure judged by history

Juan Williams calls Justice Clarence Thomas' place in history tragic. His argument rests on two sweeping claims: that Thomas is at the heart of a historic decline in public trust in the Supreme Court, and that he has damaged trust in Black conservatives as a source of ideas about race. ...

Watching regulatory capture in AI

American businesses have long practiced what political scientists call regulatory capture. A company that cannot repeal a law takes control of the people the government put in charge of enforcing it. The airlines did it to the Civil Aeronautics Board, which in 40 years never approved a ...