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By Christopher Caldwell - But progressives have begun to describe the country that existed before the 1960s as not just flawed but outright illegitimate—and Democrats are following their lead. In this view, the civil rights movement wasn’t just a reform but a refounding. These excerpts are included to illustrate how…
By David Bernhardt - Grade-school civics teaches that Washington is designed to operate under a system of checks and balances, constrained by the Constitution and empowered by the consent of the governed. In practice, however, power has become concentrated in the executive branch and largely wielded by unaccountable career bureaucrats.…
By Kimberly A, Strassel - May 11, 2021- Would the IRS violate your privacy to further Democratic policy objectives?....The lesson is that Republicans must realize that Democrats are no longer their only political foe. They face an equally potent and dangerous federal bureaucracy—committed to destroying GOP officials and propelling a…
By Philip Hamburger - The 1964 law targeted racial discrimination. Today’s problem is the suppression of dissent. It is time for a new civil-rights act that addresses the dangers of our time, not merely those of the 1960s. The threat again comes from discrimination, but now by the federal government…
John Ketcham - Fearful of angering public-employee unions, politicians bend to their will at taxpayer expense. Can this arrangement be challenged in court? Read More
Phil Gramm and Pat Toomey - His regulatory barrage and failed Progressive-era policies imperil …the American economy and our freedom. We face not an errant regulator or an officious bureaucrat, but a sea change in the economy’s regulatory ecosystem. The executive branch and its regulatory agencies are unbound by the laws they…
By Gerard Baker - As warnings about the menace to human existence get louder, and calls for action on a global scale more urgent, it seems increasingly likely that whatever else it may be, the AI menace, like every other supposed extinction-level threat man has faced in the past century…
By James Bacon - The emerging question of the 2024 presidential election: Who will slay the federal leviathan? The beast goes by another name—the administrative state—and primary contenders are increasingly placing it front and center in their campaigns. Read More
By Vivek Ramaswamy and Jed Rubenfeld - Republican politicians often ask what they can do in office to combat “wokeness.” The best approach is to amend state and federal civil-rights laws to protect employees from discrimination on the basis of political beliefs. Corporate viewpoint discrimination is unfair and widespread, a…