Still fighting off the tail-end of the Great Depression, Americans gave President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a landslide victory over Republican challenger Alf Landon in 1936. Roosevelt, keen to see his New Deal legislation brought to fruition, was frustrated again and again by the Supreme Court. The “Four Horsemen” – the press’s name for conservative justices
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More rioting and looting broke out in American cities this week. This time, it was Philadelphia consumed by violence after a police shooting. According to ABC News, at least 30 police officers have been injured in the violent unrest, while dozens of people have been arrested for rioting or vandalism. Mobs have descended on Walmart
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The Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned on Twitter and elsewhere the other day that if preelection polls in this year’s presidential race are embarrassingly wrong again, “then the polling industry is done.” It was quite the forecast. While it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion
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Thanksgiving holds a special place in my family. It’s the one holiday of the year when my four children, their spouses, and my platoon of grandchildren gather under one roof. The other holidays they celebrate in their own homes or with other relatives, but Thanksgiving is the time for the gathering of the Minick clan
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The barbaric terrorist attack Thursday morning in a church in the French city of Nice is a reminder that the free world is engaged in a long war against the forces of Islamist extremism and terror. A man with a knife fatally stabbed three French civilians the Notre-Dame Basilica in the center of Nice on
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COVID-19 is a disease, and we usually treat diseases as health problems. But when a disease becomes a pandemic, it also becomes an economic problem – not just because of the economic ramifications of trying to protect people from it, but because dealing with diseases on a mass scale requires economic thinking, mostly in the
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