With Congress on its summer recess, we’ve gotten a bit of a break from Republicans’ ad nauseam complaints that Donald Trump is a victim of a “two-tier system of justice” — one that goes after him and others in their party, the other favoring Democrats, who supposedly run the whole caper from the White House. […]

Spencer Cox, the new chairman of the National Governors Association, is promoting the idea of “healthy conflict.” The Utah governor has become concerned about the growing problem of toxic arguments in society. As the Washington Post reports, Cox wants people to learn how to “disagree better.” We should all try to think of ways we […]

A wide variety of new laws show us just how committed this state is to the long-term future of our surroundings.

Perhaps this is the summer that finally renders climate change real. Flooding and soaring temperatures across the nation have made global warming indisputable. The problem, as always, is how to reach political consensus on an action plan. Republicans want to plant a “trillion” trees; Democrats want to limit carbon emissions. If the nation’s response to […]

Edmund Burke, a famous British representative to Parliament in the 1700s, found himself criticized in a debate for voting on the unpopular side of an issue. He responded that it is the “happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. […]