Joe Rogan’s recent podcast featuring CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta is a perfect microcosm for understanding why the public currently reports record-low levels of trust in the media. © Provided by Washington Examiner What has been most >>>

It is shocking that such an absurdly antidemocratic theory ever rose to political prominence. The survival of the United States as a constitutional democracy requires that we decisively reject it... >>>

They could permanently improve the safety net. They're blowing it.As the party began trying to piece together its big social-spending and climate package, a split emerged between lawmakers who wanted to pass fewer programs (but do them well) and >>>

The show and spectacle are still more powerful than the boring institutionalists.We were wrong about this, on multiple levels. We were wrong about the American appetite for boringness and sincerity, and wrong too in believing that what America... >>>

Over the past 30 years, Justice Thomas has taken the American people on a tour of constitutional law. For that, we should all be grateful.Although we “taught” the course, it was apparent from Day One who the real teacher was: Justice Clarence... >>>

Last week, House Democrats introduced another bill designed to alter social media companies’ business practices — this time by punishing “personalized algorithms.” This is the latest in a year-long bipartisan assault on Section 230 of the... >>>

No one wanted to talk about what happened at the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida. Our reporters kept digging.When USA TODAY investigative reporter Monique O. Madan sat down to handwrite the letter, she didn’t hold out much hope for a... >>>

Education institutions with ties to slavery and Jim Crow crippled the earnings of Blacks for generations. Now, some are leading the way to justice.As scholar Craig Wilder aptly points out in his work, "Ebony and Ivy," dozens of the top research... >>>

Leniency is not necessarily a bad thing, but politically selective leniency belies the guiding principle of equal justice under law.That question is complicated to answer in the abstract, in part because of the many stages of the criminal process... >>>

Persuasively rebutting David Shor requires scrutinizing his arguments, not stigmatizing them.People like me — city-dwelling college graduates who know what a “Senate parliamentarian” is — comprise an extremely small share of the American population. >>>

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New York City’s unceremonious decision to remove the author of the Declaration of Independence from its City Council chamber is wrong.It was wrong,... >>>

Axel Springer, the publishing giant that just bought Politico, made waves last week when its CEO said in an interview that he wants all staffers to adhere to companywide guiding principles, including support for “Israel’s right to exist.” As Mathias >>>

The party keeps trying to dramatize Republican obstruction of voting-rights legislation. But it is also drawing attention to its futility.The idea is to show how committed Democrats are to voting rights — and how determined Republicans are to let... >>>

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