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Immigration is on Americans’ minds

When I saw Donald Trump take an interest in the horrible killing of a Georgia nursing student, I was swept by a profound sense of having been here before. In 2015, Trump made a national cause out of the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle in San Francisco, allegedly by Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate, a ...

Liberal elites against Democracy

I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the intrepid colonists fought for the then-novel concept of democratic self-government. A cursory ...

School vouchers – what could go wrong?

The central reason for the Kump Education Center is to support and improve public education. In West Virginia we have the same basic needs that this state had a hundred years ago before H.G. Kump became governor. We need better schools and roads. These two things are necessary, and they both ...

The rise of nostalgia for Donald Trump

Donald Trump obviously left office on a sour note in January 2021, written off by many opinion-makers and political professionals. Then, President Biden happened. The most remarkable phenomenon of the 2024 election cycle so far is the rise of Trump nostalgia. It’s difficult for anyone to ...

McConnell’s judicial games

Mitch McConnell has announced he will step down from his leadership of Senate Republicans at the end of the year. Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wished McConnell the very best. I do not. Instead, I scorn him for undermining the Senate’s role in American democracy. On Feb. 13, ...

The State of the Disunion

If advance reports are correct, President Biden’s State of the Union address will sound more like a political stump speech than an honest assessment of where the country stands. The man who promised to be a uniter, will likely deliver one of the most divisive speeches of his presidency. The ...