Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL and Washington, D.C. October 8, 2024—Thinking Outside the Boxe announced today its endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States in the 2024 election. In 2016 we endorsed Mr. Trump because we believed the country needed someone willing to confront immigration, spending, over-regulation, tax policy, and national … Continue reading Thinking Outside the Boxe Endorses Donald J. Trump for President
Is the labor wave in autos, ports, and hospitality producing a durable shift in private-sector bargaining power, or a one-cycle tightness that will fade with slower demand?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — Hospitality already ran the experiment. When the rooms filled and the kitchens couldn't hire, the wage moved and the attitude moved with it. That's tightness rather than a constitution. A durable shift would look like contracts that still bite after the occupancy chart cools. I think we have more of … Continue reading Is the labor wave in autos, ports, and hospitality producing a durable shift in private-sector bargaining power, or a one-cycle tightness that will fade with slower demand?
How should states administer same-day and mail voting in a year when both coalitions already claim the rules are rigged against them?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — You can't talk either camp out of a theft story in October. You can make the story harder to tell in July. Rules posted before the heat rather than invented after a poll moves. Paper that exists. An identification rule matching the state's own other business. A chain a stranger can … Continue reading How should states administer same-day and mail voting in a year when both coalitions already claim the rules are rigged against them?
Has Boeing’s quality and safety crisis shown that self-certification in commercial aviation needs a statutory overhaul, or that the failure is firm culture rather than the FAA model?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — This coast puts families on those aircraft and I don't need a romance about either the firm or the agency. A door plug leaving a fuselage and a production system that couldn't say where the bolts went is first a culture file. Self-certification works when the firm fears the aircraft … Continue reading Has Boeing’s quality and safety crisis shown that self-certification in commercial aviation needs a statutory overhaul, or that the failure is firm culture rather than the FAA model?
How should voters weigh campus encampments and university discipline this spring when judging federal research funding and Title VI enforcement?
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?
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?
After the first presidential debate, should party mechanisms have a formal capacity test for nominees, or would that process be captured by the same insiders the primaries were meant to discipline?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — The country watched a fitness question answered on live television. That doesn't mean I want a committee with a stethoscope and a donor list. Primaries were supposed to be the capacity test voters run. What we saw last week was a party that spent a year insisting the question was a … Continue reading After the first presidential debate, should party mechanisms have a formal capacity test for nominees, or would that process be captured by the same insiders the primaries were meant to discipline?
