Last week week, I had the opportunity to visit the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, to hear President Donald Trump speak. Trump, who had just brokered a ceasefire deal involving the release of all 20 living Israeli hostages from Hamas — without a full Israeli withdrawal, and with a stated ...
In the British elections of 1831, the borough of Dunwich elected two members to the House of Commons. Funny thing, though: Over the centuries, Dunwich had pretty much been swallowed by the North Sea. So by the 1800s, the members were essentially chosen by two people. That’s hardly democracy ...
The first week of October was Mental Illness Awareness Week, a designation by Congress since 1990 in recognition of the ongoing work of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. To help bring more understanding of the seriousness of emotional challenges that many people face, the American ...
In one of his classic New Jersey ballads, Bruce Springsteen sings of the sun “rising over them refinery towers.” If New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy had gotten his way, the Boss would need to update the lyric to rhapsodize about enormous wind turbines looming on the horizon instead. ...
The president is still riding on global goodwill for the release of hostages from Hamas. On stage in Egypt, the president of Pakistan praised President Donald Trump for bringing peace to what could have become a nuclear war between Pakistan and India. The Israeli people love him more than they ...
What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to establish and to limit the federal government? What if Congress’s 16 enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limit Congress but are actually used as a justification to extend Congress’s authority over nearly every aspect of human ...