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Crime

Ben Mannes: Trump’s crackdown defies critics as crime rates drop

December 3, 2025December 2, 2025
A. Benjamin Mannes
1

Despite a concerted media campaign to portray President Trump’s immigration enforcement and approach to crime in Washington, D.C., as inhumane, […]

Law Enforcement Op-Ed

Can the National Guard stop crime beyond D.C.?

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025
A. Benjamin Mannes

While President Trump’s recent deployment of the National Guard to assist federal law enforcement in Washington, D.C., has been successful […]

Government Op-Ed

Washington, Philadelphia, and the problems of home rule

August 12, 2025August 11, 2025
A. Benjamin Mannes

Has unchecked local autonomy bred systemic dysfunction that higher levels of government may be better positioned to correct in both DC and Philadelphia?
By A. Benjamin Mannes

Transportation

Andrew Abramczyk: Biden’s “Infrastructure” plan shows why we can’t have nice things

June 17, 2021June 18, 2021
Andrew Abramczyk
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The Biden bill exemplifies everything that’s gone wrong with our politics.
By Andrew Abramczyk

Free Speech

Daniel Goncalves: Big Tech stranglehold over public discourse shows a monopoly in need of reform

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021
Daniel Goncalves
2

Does Big Tech function as a regular private sector company — or a utility?
By Daniel Goncalves

Health

Philip Wegmann: House GOP — Dems’ Covid policy for nursing homes was deadly

June 18, 2020April 19, 2021
Philip Wegmann

The National GOP thinks the Democrats’ decision to force nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients is a vulnerability.
By Philip Wegmann

Politics

Andrew J. Bove: THIS is what Americans find so troubling about Washington insiders

November 25, 2019April 19, 2021
Andrew J. Bove

Columnist David Brooks rejects the caricature of federal workers as corrupt, overpaid, incompetent swamp creatures. But that’s not the core issue.
By Andrew J. Bove

Op-Ed

Thom Nickels: Literary criticism in the Trump era suffers from an excess of politics

Thom Nickels: Literary criticism in the Trump era suffers from an excess of politics

schedule March 20 2026
ink_pen Thom Nickels

It’s derangement all the way down.
By Thom Nickels

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