Tag: Social Issues
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Opinion | Blocking the Road Is Civil Terrorism
[ad_1] The anti-Israel demonstrators who have blocked traffic in major cities across the country know that their victims are decent people. There is little risk that the drivers who can’t get to their jobs, families and other obligations will run them over because those drivers are careful to avoid harming others and breaking the law—even…
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Opinion | Claudine Gay and America’s Institutions
[ad_1] Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard might seem like a ripe moment for introspection at America’s institutions of higher learning. Alas, they seem to be circling the progressive wagons instead. That’s the message of Ms. Gay’s essay in the New York Times on Thursday that accuses her critics of racism and know-nothingism. “Those…
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Opinion | The Welfare-Industrial Complex Is Booming
[ad_1] Dec. 31, 2023 11:23 am ET Drill into the nation’s 3.7% unemployment rate, and you’ll find a growing welfare-industrial complex beneath the seemingly strong labor market. Government, social assistance and healthcare account for 56% of the 2.8 million net new jobs over the past year, and for nearly all gains in blue states such…
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Opinion | The Lesson of 1975 for Today’s Pessimists
[ad_1] Things always seem dark and desperate before a new age of innovation kicks off. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Tort Law vs. the Anti-Israel Protesters
[ad_1] Normally we wouldn’t wish trial lawyers on our worst enemy. But as anti-Israel demonstrations grow increasingly lawless, the plaintiffs bar could help. Why not hit protesters who break the law and keep Americans from getting to their destination with a tort liability suit for false imprisonment? On Wednesday anti-Israel protesters blocked access to JFK…
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Opinion | Hong Kong Puts Itself on Trial
[ad_1] The trial of jailed newspaperman Jimmy Lai begins Monday. He is formally accused of sedition, collusion with foreign forces and conspiracy to produce and distribute seditious material. But the real case the authorities are making is that Hong Kong people would never push for democracy if the 76-year-old Mr. Lai and outside forces hadn’t…
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Opinion | Fentanyl: The Silent Killer of American Youth
[ad_1] Students discuss the causes of the opioid crisis and how to combat it. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America
[ad_1] America faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”—and more. To these has…
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Opinion | The Shock of Facing American Anti-Semitism
[ad_1] Jews thought America was a safe haven, but Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities revealed hatred here at home. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | The FCC’s New Racial Broadband Rule
[ad_1] The Federal Communication Commission’s new Democratic majority is up and running and firing in all directions. Next week the Commission plans to vote on a proposed “digital discrimination” rule. In the name of equity, Democratic Commissioners will make internet service worse. The 2021 infrastructure bill instructed the FCC to prevent “digital discrimination” of broadband…