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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 ...

Some decisions to make on global influence

I studied British history in college and grad school and am struck by the parallels between the British Empire in days of yore and the United States today. The era of British supremacy began with the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 and lasted well over a century. By the end of World War ...

Pursuit of regional peace must go on

Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace. It's why they fly planes into buildings, don explosive vests, and rain indiscriminate missiles on civilian populations. The response to such terrorism isn't to cower. It is to lead with boldness, courage and, sometimes, outright ...