By Charlotte Allen
Sheryl Sandberg's runaway best-selling book Lean In has managed to offend both the Left and the Right. Sandberg touts female hard-headedness, yet also calls for an elaborate government- and employer-supplied support system for women.
Racial prejudice plays a very small role in American politics, but a highly disciplined sense of self-interest on the ...
A question that has frequently been raised in presidential election campaigns is: are American voters racist? The way this question is framed almost always centers on a concern that some Americans ...
Paper is becoming less important in some respects, but its strengths — prestige, utility, permanence, and security — ...
Is paper obsolete? A Canadian who had a stash of new-style polymer $100 bills probably would disagree. He kept them in a coffee can near a radiator and they melted. Others have complained that ...
An unexpected glimmer of hope might cast a new light on the Golden State.
It’s getting depressingly repetitive to keep writing about California’s problems, which are legion and seemingly intractable. But this time, I’m pleased to report on an unexpected ...
Failure to scrutinize employment income contributed to the housing crisis and now threatens student loans, which total ...
As the class of 2013 graduates, massive student-loan defaults loom. Too many loans were given to students without considering their prospects for finding jobs after graduating and being able to repay ...
The national pastime may be past its time. But those who think it’s boring need to think again.
Baseball, the national pastime, may be past its time. Evidence suggests that the game’s popularity is slipping. “Sunday Night Football” remains the highest-rated television sports ...
An independent Kurdistan is now more feasible than ever. The United States should seize this historic opportunity to ...
Recent events inside Iraq and Syria have made the moral and strategic case for an independent Kurdistan stronger than ever. Likewise, circumstances have shifted such that Turkish acceptance of a ...
Republicans are wrongly giving fear of money printing a higher priority than the growth debate. Robust growth is as ...
Economic growth has been a persistent theme here, and a new book from the AEI Press provides yet another explanation of why broadly shared economic growth deserves top priority in policy debates, as ...
By itself, the U.S. manufacturing sector would be the tenth-largest economy in the world, and there is growing concern ...
During the Great Recession, American manufacturing got hit hard, even more so than the rest of the U.S. economy, which is always the case during economic downturns. For example, as recession-related ...
It seems doubtful that Pentagon planners truly believe that Syria’s air defenses are a significant hurdle to intervening ...
Ever since the debate in the United States began over whether to intervene in some fashion in Syria’s civil war, senior military and Pentagon officials have cautioned that Syria’s air ...
Lawsuits over players’ brain injuries have some saying football is dead. In fact, it has dislodged baseball as the ...
“Football is dead in America,” Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass writes, “as dead as the Marlboro Man.” He adds that “if the professional game survives at all, it will ...