Outside the Beltway

Our natural instincts in hiring are wrong.

The world’s largest democracy just became more democratic.

After weeks of protest, a solid effort.

Seven decades after de jure segregation was outlawed, de facto segregation is alive and well.

The United States has less press freedom than 54 countries. Or does it?

Novo Nordisk is worth more than home country’s Denmark annual GDP.

Are we betraying the Founders?

On-campus classes have been suspended and Jewish students told to find safety.

Rural Americans are misunderstood!

A major effort to capture the diversity of America.

Some interesting tidbits.

Of party, duty, age, and political roulette.

It’s harder than I would have thought.

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

There’s an inherent tension in public education.

His column in the Houston Chronicle fails to impress.

An appropriate step.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

A Representative’s slip of the tongue and the ensuing debate.

The North Dakota governor really, really wants to be on TV.

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

There’s a fine line between upholding cultural norms and structural racism.

Get me higher than the grocery bill.

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

As widely expected, Air Force Chief of Staff Charles “CQ” Brown will become the nation’s top military officer.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

“The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer.”

A pending lawsuit seeks to settle those questions.

Truth is not an absolute defense against termination.

South Carolina and Georgia win! Iowa loses! New Hampshire whines!

A real example of American exceptionalism.

The silliness of “generations.”

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

There’s training on uncomfortable subjects. Oh noes!

What Americans say they want in the Oval Office.

Wherein I examine UATX specifically.

Will discusses a nascent university and in doing so produced a cliched column about higher education.

They’re all made out of ticky tacky. And they all look just the same

Because of course she is.

The idiocy of Iowa and New Hampshire having outsized influence on who is elected President may be ending.

Some links to peruse.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

A reminder of how things (specifically the party system as a whole) have changed.

The next Congress will look a bit more like America than did the last.

Localities are consolidating local elections to coincide with national ones. Some don’t like that.

The ayatollahs face the biggest challenge to their authority in the history of the regime.

The reactionary press is once again misrepresenting diversity training.

How well has the famous thesis fared?