When your only tool is a hammer, psychiatrist Abraham Maslow famously observed, all problems begin to look like nails. That nugget of wisdom comes to mind as President Trump implements his federal takeover of the District of Columbia's police force and the deployment of 800 National Guard, a ...

When President Donald Trump called a press conference on Monday to discuss how he would use emergency powers to federalize the D.C. police and deploy the National Guard, the knee-jerk anti-Trump media launched into complaining Trump was doing something dramatic about the crime-riddled District ...

On May 1, 2003, George W. Bush announced, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." He was standing below a giant banner that read, "Mission Accomplished." At the risk of inviting charges of understatement, subsequent events didn't cooperate. But it took a while for that to be widely ...

It's with some discomfort that I consider the possibility that Trump's radical immigration agenda will lead to better immigration policies. The discomfort comes from the cruelty involved: the roughing up of good people who've been quietly working, the celebrations of brutal incarceration, the ...

Growing up a Houghton Gremlin is a lifetime memory for many of us in our own way. We shared the same classes, the same teachers, and the same hallways. Nearly the same everything. All the students throughout different graduating classes at Houghton High during the past years have much the same ...

This is the dawning of the age of school choice. The school bells will start ringing in the days and weeks ahead, but a record number of kids — especially children from low-income families — will be opting out of the traditional public schools. This year as many as 1 million kids will ...