During my career with the Chicago Tribune, I covered my share of criminal and civil trials. One thing I learned early on was to watch the jury for telltale reactions that might indicate how jurors were processing the evidence. Did they express any emotions? Shock? Sympathy? Disgust? Anger? Sadness? Drollness? …
Where are the watchdogs? I have been asking myself that question for months. It is a story every American needs to hear, yet legacy media outlets have decided you don’t need to know. In their view, the annual loss of billions in taxpayer dollars to fraudsters is a Washington “non-story”—a …
While politicians and tech executives wring their hands over how to govern the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, a far more fundamental crisis is unfolding quietly in America’s classrooms. According to recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, nearly a third of high school seniors cannot read well …
Americans have short memories. Very short. It’s only been 25 years since Muslim terrorists launched the deadliest attack on American soil in 250 years, yet many Americans (especially Muslim-Americans) seem oblivious to that event and instead are eager to denigrate our nation as a toxic cauldron of white supremacy and …
When I was a college student, there was a required reading program called Western Civilization that exposed us to 3,000 years of Western thought and the writings and ideas of a broad range of individuals, from Adolf Hitler to Thomas Hobbes, from Karl Marx to Baron de Montesquieu. The idea …