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New Yorkers, you are one of the 190 million. If you live in LA you’re in the club too. Houston, Seattle, you can definitely tag along. In fact, almost every major metropolitan area – and all those places on the coasts and borders in between them ...

The Hundred-Mile Border

New Yorkers, you are one of the 190 million. If you live in LA you’re in the club too. Houston, Seattle, you can definitely tag along. In fact, almost every major metropolitan area – and all those places on the coasts and borders in between them ...

Hello, readers. There are no Fourth Amendment decisions being handed down (I just want my warrant rights clarified, Court!) and we’ve still got a week to go before the same-sex marriage cases, so I’m going to take a break from present-day Suprem...

The “Sandberg-Slaughter Debate” at the Supreme Court

Hello, readers. There are no Fourth Amendment decisions being handed down (I just want my warrant rights clarified, Court!) and we’ve still got a week to go before the same-sex marriage cases, so I’m going to take a break from present-day Suprem...

Senator Rob Portman, Republican from Ohio, came out last week in support of same-sex marriage. Portman, who had previously opposed gay marriage, reconsidered his position after learning is son his gay. Portman’s op-ed is heartfelt, and reflects sev...

Rob Portman and Gay Marriage in 2016

Senator Rob Portman, Republican from Ohio, came out last week in support of same-sex marriage. Portman, who had previously opposed gay marriage, reconsidered his position after learning is son his gay. Portman’s op-ed is heartfelt, and reflects sev...

I walked up into the store like I got a big—well, a big thrift shop party to prepare for. And it was when milling through the Salvation Army store east of campus that I first heard the news of Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) endorsing same-sex marriage....

The Politics of Macklemore

I walked up into the store like I got a big—well, a big thrift shop party to prepare for. And it was when milling through the Salvation Army store east of campus that I first heard the news of Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) endorsing same-sex marriage....

Guest worker programs propagate indentured servitude in the 21st Century. by Jake Karr This year, around 700,000 people will arrive in the United States legally through various temporary work programs. They will reach our shores or cross our borders ...

(Don’t) Be Our Guest

Guest worker programs propagate indentured servitude in the 21st Century. by Jake Karr This year, around 700,000 people will arrive in the United States legally through various temporary work programs. They will reach our shores or cross our borders ...

Meet the new journalism, funded by you. by Ben Wofford For one brief moment in 1967, Broadway met political journalism halfway. In the banter following Fiddler on the Roof’s “If I Were a Rich Man,” Tevye laments his daughter’s refusal to ente...

Good News

Meet the new journalism, funded by you. by Ben Wofford For one brief moment in 1967, Broadway met political journalism halfway. In the banter following Fiddler on the Roof’s “If I Were a Rich Man,” Tevye laments his daughter’s refusal to ente...

When it comes to taxes, the left is risking reform for rhetoric. by David Kaufman The echoes of Occupy Wall Street’s chants for egalitarianism have long faded from the streets of downtown Manhattan, but U.S. politicians have yet to decide how to sp...

Tax the (Right) Rich

When it comes to taxes, the left is risking reform for rhetoric. by David Kaufman The echoes of Occupy Wall Street’s chants for egalitarianism have long faded from the streets of downtown Manhattan, but U.S. politicians have yet to decide how to sp...

Sequestration – the series of automatic spending cuts that went into effect March 1 – came not with a bang but a whimper. The Obama administration did its best to argue that the cuts would have drastic consequences, almost implying that we’d ha...

The Tyranny of the Markets over Washington

Sequestration – the series of automatic spending cuts that went into effect March 1 – came not with a bang but a whimper. The Obama administration did its best to argue that the cuts would have drastic consequences, almost implying that we’d ha...

The State Department’s draft report on the Keystone XL pipeline, released March 1st, has already been subject to loud criticism and praise. The American Petroleum Institute hailed the report, the New York Times called it a “2,000 page lubricant...

The Keystone XL Pipeline’s Contentious Future

The State Department’s draft report on the Keystone XL pipeline, released March 1st, has already been subject to loud criticism and praise. The American Petroleum Institute hailed the report, the New York Times called it a “2,000 page lubricant...