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My instinctive skepticism of government solutions is at least as old as my animus against litter.
The brain reacts to the high that comes with political authority in much the same way it does to any other repeated source of pleasure.
The ERA was never ratified. Some activists are asking a judge to pretend it was.
For politicians accustomed to treating lawmaking as their exclusive domain, the loss of control is intolerable.
The elimination of evil and homicidal despots makes the world a better place.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame didn't ask taxpayers to cover the cost of snubbing Belichick. The Democratic and Republican parties shouldn't ask them to cover the cost of choosing nominees, either.
William Howard Taft's conviction that presidents must not rule by executive order ended up costing him.
Suffering, hope, and heroism are part of our common humanity, and no government has the authority to ration empathy by skin color.
Public-sector unions are not passive participants in the democratic process; they are among its most sophisticated and ruthless players.
Residents of a state don't uproot themselves lightly — certainly not by the tens of thousands, year after year — unless something important is pushing or pulling them.
A legal battle over two statues in Quincy raises the question: Must the public square be secular?
The architecture profession has never established ethical guardrails to say that what Walter Dejaco did must never happen again.
The hardest part of adopting new technology isn't the technology at all. It's remembering to stay amazed.
A better approach: Stay at the table, but always abstain.
It isn't true that "all that matters is the routine." All that matters is sitting down and doing the work.
One enduring lesson of George Washington's Delaware crossing is about leadership at the edge of failure.
Filthy language has always existed, but only in recent decades have the most vulgar swear words in the English language become so publicly ubiquitous.
What would replace the current system? A regime in which every new baby's parents must prove their status before their child's citizenship can be confirmed?
For decades the belief in a two-state solution as the key to peace in the Middle East has been all but unchallenged in policy circles.
