Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Weigh them as a management file and a civil-rights file rather than as a foreign-policy seminar with tents. Federal research money isn't a birthright for a campus that can't keep a library open or a Jewish student walking to class unimpeded. If a school ran one rule for a climate sit-in … Continue reading How should voters weigh campus encampments and university discipline this spring when judging federal research funding and Title VI enforcement?
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How should voters weigh campus encampments and university discipline this spring when judging federal research funding and Title VI enforcement?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A pipe owned by an adversary's legal system isn't a magazine with a catchy song. The predicate is what makes it legitimate: an application whose algorithm and data can be directed under a statute we don't control, in a country that already uses platforms as instruments. The precedent risk is … Continue reading How should voters weigh campus encampments and university discipline this spring when judging federal research funding and Title VI enforcement?
Is the enacted TikTok divestiture law a legitimate national-security measure, or a precedent for political control of any disfavored platform?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A pipe owned by an adversary's legal system isn't a magazine with a catchy song. The predicate is what makes it legitimate: an application whose algorithm and data can be directed under a statute we don't control, in a country that already uses platforms as instruments. The precedent risk is … Continue reading Is the enacted TikTok divestiture law a legitimate national-security measure, or a precedent for political control of any disfavored platform?
Should the Washington NATO summit next week lock in a long-term Ukraine funding and production schedule, or mark the start of a narrower U.S. role?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — A summit that locks a tab is a summit that skipped the sentence about whose factory runs at night. Long-term schedules are adulthood if European line items are the ones that grow and American high-end stays the scarce part. They're a habit if the schedule is another way to write American … Continue reading Should the Washington NATO summit next week lock in a long-term Ukraine funding and production schedule, or mark the start of a narrower U.S. role?
Does a campaign conducted while one candidate is a convicted felon under state law create a legitimacy problem for whoever wins, or is that a category the Constitution already answered?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — The Constitution answered the category. It lists age, residency, natural-born citizenship, and a small number of disqualifications that Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment actually wrote. A state conviction isn't on the list, and the historical precedent is direct. Eugene Debs ran for president from a federal penitentiary in 1920 and … Continue reading Does a campaign conducted while one candidate is a convicted felon under state law create a legitimacy problem for whoever wins, or is that a category the Constitution already answered?
From the earliest unscripted Biden appearances in 2021, should the press and the party have treated evident verbal and physical decline as a governing issue, or was dismissing the clips the correct institutional response until a debate made denial impossible?
Gastonia, NC One housekeeping note before anything else, because it matters to the argument and I have already heard people get it wrong twice this week. "Cheap fake" is two weeks old. The press secretary used it in the middle of June, about three specific clips — the G7 skydiver, the Juneteenth event, the Morehouse … Continue reading From the earliest unscripted Biden appearances in 2021, should the press and the party have treated evident verbal and physical decline as a governing issue, or was dismissing the clips the correct institutional response until a debate made denial impossible?
Have the gag orders entered against a leading presidential candidate protected the integrity of pending trials, or have they created a new form of pretrial speech control aimed at the campaign itself?
Gastonia, NC A gag that can live on a quiet defendant is a trial-management tool. A gag that has to live on the opposition's presumptive nominee is something more complicated, because the mouth being restrained belongs to the campaign as well as to the defendant. That is the tension, and I want to work through … Continue reading Have the gag orders entered against a leading presidential candidate protected the integrity of pending trials, or have they created a new form of pretrial speech control aimed at the campaign itself?
Has the accumulation of civil judgments, business restrictions, and criminal captions against one candidate created a practical ban on his ability to campaign, or is that simply what losing in court looks like?
Myrtle Beach, SC A formal ban is easy to recognize. A candidate is struck from the ballot, denied a forum, or prohibited by law from campaigning. That is not what has happened, and I would not use the word if that were its only meaning. He has traveled, spoken, raised money, held rallies, given interviews, … Continue reading Has the accumulation of civil judgments, business restrictions, and criminal captions against one candidate created a practical ban on his ability to campaign, or is that simply what losing in court looks like?
When the White House kept press availability tightly limited, declined routine interviews, and ran a staff-managed schedule, was that ordinary modern presidency — or evidence that the public was no longer seeing the person who actually held the office?
Myrtle Beach, SC Every White House manages a calendar. The question is whether this one managed it past the point where the public could still see the officer, and the numbers are the place to start rather than the vibe. In three years this president has given fewer than a hundred interviews. Each of the … Continue reading When the White House kept press availability tightly limited, declined routine interviews, and ran a staff-managed schedule, was that ordinary modern presidency — or evidence that the public was no longer seeing the person who actually held the office?
Should classified-documents handling by former presidents and vice presidents be governed by one published standard after the Biden and Pence discoveries, or does the divergence in charging outcomes confirm that the documents file was never a neutral records policy?
Myrtle Beach, SC If the subject is records, the government should be able to publish the rule before it knows the name on the box. That was the standard I expected once classified material turned up not only at Mar-a-Lago but in a Wilmington garage and a house in Carmel, Indiana. And I spent this … Continue reading Should classified-documents handling by former presidents and vice presidents be governed by one published standard after the Biden and Pence discoveries, or does the divergence in charging outcomes confirm that the documents file was never a neutral records policy?
