Liberty
Blue States and School Choice
Lewis Andrews asks in a Federalist column: What will it take for blue states to embrace school choice? Last week, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union revealed she is…
Syracuse
city in and county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States
Liberty
COVID-19 News and Cooper’s Plan: Some Context and Criticism
With all the differing information swirling around COVID-19, it is always helpful to put that information in context. Our Jon Sanders did just that in his research brief this week.…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Tell Gov. Cooper: Facts and data support getting out, talking with people, and being neighborly again
Read on to see why 99.83% of people in NC pose no threat to you whatsoever of transmitting COVID-19.
Elections & Public Integrity
Re: Another critique of the ‘efficiency gap’
Two months ago, “The Locker Room” highlighted a Commentary magazine article that questioned so-called “efficiency gap” analysis as a tool for helping judges determine whether lawmakers have engaged in “too…
Elections & Public Integrity
Another critique of the ‘efficiency gap’
A recent Daily Journal explained why the so-called “efficiency gap” analysis falls short of its goal of differentiating acceptable partisan election mapmaking from unconstitutional gerrymandering. The latest issue of Commentary…
Liberty
The News Media should not be in the business of telling people how to vote
Today’s Wall Street Journal’s “Notable & Quotable” section features a quote from founder of the USA Today newspaper, Richard Benedetto. He was writing in the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch on October…
Liberty
“Make Bathrooms Great Again!”
That’s what Powerline’s Steven Haywood wants: New York governor Andrew Cuomo got lots of news coverage yesterday for his directive restricting state travel to North Carolina on account of the law…
Law & Public Safety
Another defense of Scalia’s originalism
Syracuse law professor Tara Helfman shares with Commentary magazine readers a thoughtful essay on the significance of Antonin Scalia’s departure from the U.S. Supreme Court. Helfman’s article features a succinct…
Law & Public Safety
Commentary column places religious-liberty controversy in context
We’ve heard quite a bit about how efforts to protect religious liberty through a state version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act amount to homophobes’ rear-guard effort to block the…
Liberty
Reports: ACC tournament to Brookyln in 2017 and 2018
After being in Greensboro again next year and in Washington, DC in 2016. As USA Today reports, the key issue at this point appears to be whatever deal the Atlantic…
Law & Public Safety
Meeting his goals by ignoring his job
Syracuse law professor Tara Helfman writes in the latest print edition of Commentary magazine that President Obama resembles, in at least one respect, a classic American literary character. When it…
Liberty
More on the ACC tourney to NYC
ACCC Commissioner John Swofford did offer up not exactly a ringing endorsement for keeping the ACC men’s basketball tournament in North Carolina earlier this week. As reported by the Greensboro…