As we move closer to Election Day, most Americans are angry, exhausted and dissatisfied with the current state of our politics. Only 4 percent of survey respondents said the political system was working extremely well or even very well. Sixteen perc
Imagine telling yourself, in 2012, that just three presidential elections into the future Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alberto Gonzales, Barbara Lee and Elizabeth Warren would be endorsing the same candidate. Such is the strange
Sarah Isgurphlboss, a longtime Republican campaign operative — and my friend and a senior editor at The Dispatch — has a brilliant sports analogy for the process of campaigning. She compares it to … curling. For those unfamiliar with the sport (whic
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month that the new Trump administration would recommend removing fluoride from public water supplies. The suggestion that fluoride was unsafe was immediately criticized by many public health experts as anti-science mi
In 2011, I taught a college class on the meaning and value of work. It was a general-education classnuebe gaming, the sort that students say they have to “get out of the way” before they move on to their major courses. Few of the students were avid
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Democratic self-rule contains a paradox. It is a system premised on openness and competition. Any ambitious party or politician should have a shot at running for office and winning. But what if a major candidate seeks to dismantle that very system?
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