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liberals
"Poverty is changing, and policy responses must change too," argues an important recent report published by the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute and the left-leaning Brookings Institution. The document — the product of a bipartisan group of top scholars — combines political diversity with shared values to make a dozen recommendations
Massachusetts
A recent report by the conservative Heritage Foundation suggests that the best way to fight the controversial Common Core educational standards is to oppose the "centralization of education." The report tells dissident parents that the best way to fight Common Core and improve schools is to promote "
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women
College leaders spend a lot of time talking about the need for diversity on campus. They want to make sure that different races, ethnicities, religions, and sexual orientations are represented. To some extent, this makes sense: Colleges are supposed to expose students to a variety of perspectives. It helps to
First Amendment
Recent advances in communications technology have made it easier than ever for speakers to spread their messages and for listeners to find the content they are after. I emailed the final draft of this column to the NewBostonPost yesterday, and today it might be read by someone on the opposite
Massachusetts
"Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness" — George Orwell from "Politics and the English Language" (1946) What would George Orwell, who once described his own work in "Selected Writings" as "against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism,"
congress
Paul D. Ryan's election as the 54th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives provides Republicans an important opportunity to prove that they are the party of ideas, political sobriety, and prudent statecraft. In the coming weeks, Mr. Ryan's task will become clear: he must
conservative
In 2011, after 899 issues and 73 years of publication, Superman, the most famous American comic book character, announced that he was renouncing his American citizenship. "I intend to speak before the United Nations tomorrow and inform them that I am renouncing my U.S. citizenship," Superman announces.
Democrat
Brace yourselves: Attorneys at America's largest law firms are far to the left of the American political center. That's the unsurprising news from a study released by a trio of political scientists, who reviewed decades' worth of data on political contributions by hundreds of thousands
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