Responding to the anniversary of Donald Trump’s election, The Washington Post Magazine presented “38 ideas for repairing our badly broken civic life.” Post Magazine editor Richard Just explained that “all of us ... should be able to agree that some future-pondering...
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When Gunmen Strike, You’re on Your Own
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 6, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Here is an often-used tactic to defend government police organizations from criticism. Whenever critics point out abusive tactics of police officers, defenders counter with: "And yet you won't refuse police help the next time there's a robber in your house!" This, we...
When Gunmen Strike, You're on Your Own
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 6, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Here is an often-used tactic to defend government police organizations from criticism. Whenever critics point out abusive tactics of police officers, defenders counter with: "And yet you won't refuse police help the next time there's a robber in your house!" This, we...
Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Nov 6, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
t only took a few hours after the news of the Texas massacre for the New York Times to start its gun-control incantations again. “Republicans leaders in Congress do nothing,” the paper writes. “Or, really, so far they’ve done the same thing they have always done:...
Left and Right React to the Texas Shooting
by Christian Britschgi | Nov 6, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
New details continue to trickle out about Sunday's mass shooting at a the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas which has left at least 26 people dead. According to law enforcement, alleged shooter Devin P. Kelley phoned his father during the high-speed...
The State of Free Speech and Tolerance in America
by Emily Ekins | Nov 3, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Americans Say Political Correctness Has Silenced Discussions Society Needs to Have; Most Have Views They’re Afraid to Share Nearly three-fourths (71%) of Americans believe that political correctness has done more to silence important discussions our society needs to...
Opioid Commission Mistakenly Blames Pain Treatment for Drug Deaths
by Jacob Sullum | Nov 3, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The panel wants to make prescription analgesics even harder to obtain. In the report it published yesterday, the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, chaired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, endorses what has become the standard...
There Is No ‘War on Cops’
by Tate Fegley | Oct 30, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
With the FBI releasing the 2016 Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted data this month, reports on police deaths have once again found their way into headlines. Such reports offer a great illustration of how reporting the same facts in different ways can...
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