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Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: How Did the FBI Become the Counterculture?

What wasn’t talked about The speech ended without any mention of Republican special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a rash of recent school shootings or the #MeToo movement that has

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: Thinking Small When the Big Picture Looks Cloudy

When Crystal Pacheco, a first-grader from South Texas, asked Santa for a ball, blanket and food, and her teacher shared her note, the school received enough donations for her and every student.

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: When the Price Is Too High to Be an American

In 1993, as a member of the School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida, she spearheaded what would become the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project, which has served at-risk youth and, among other initiatives

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: Avoiding Another ‘Brownbackistan’

In the end, school funding was slashed so severely that nurses and janitors were eliminated from schools, leaving some teachers to vacuum their own classrooms during recess.

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: Liberals Must Find the Right Tone on Guns

And that is: Have gun control crusaders learned from their failed efforts to legislate in the wake of school children dead in Sandy Hook, churchgoers murdered in Charleston and night-clubbers massacred

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: More Shootings, No Difference

The horrible murder of first-graders in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, did not result in any changes, and neither did two separate attacks on members of Congress, one from

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: How 9/11 Permanently Changed Us

The lead story highlights talk of tax cuts on Capitol Hill while a major feature conveys the worries of public school officials that dress codes are being flouted: “The days when torn jeans tested the

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: In Praise of Congressional Openness

Chris Shays, a moderate Connecticut Republican, held a town meeting in a high school auditorium in Norwalk that lingers in memory for the passion and the politeness of the debate on both sides.

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: Mick Mulvaney’s Compassion — Not for the Needy

compassion are $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall, a $54 billion annual increase in military and defense spending, and significant plus-ups for law enforcement, veterans programs, paid parental leave, and school

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: In North Carolina, the Good and Not-So-Good News

Young people still in school may be able, however, to add a “comprehensive firearm education course” to their list of electives if a proposed bill passes. No live ammunition will be permitted.

Opinion · 115th Congress

Obama and Trump: Two Presidents, Same God

For example, Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick for Education secretary, has said her visit to a Christian school in Michigan led to her advocacy for school choice.