by Jason LaBau
How will the growing political influence of the LDS Church shape the Republican Party and the nation’s immigration debate? I believe the church’s global agenda may prove a counterbalance to isolationist forces in the GOP. Two Arizona contests featuring pairs of conservative Mormon Republican candidates may soon provide some answers to these questions and test my proposition. …
Throughout its 161-year history, California has seen attempts by its citizens to split the state. One history counts more than 200 attempts and some 27 “serious” proposals to do so. Today, the difficulties of governing a state so sprawling and populous have renewed the conversation, bringing forward proposals from inland elected officials to break the state up. And people are listening. In advance of “Is California Too Big?”, a Zócalo event in Fresno, we asked several knowledgeable Californians if they thought there was any merit to such ideas. Should California be spit in two? …
Since the birth of democracy, governments have struggled against the political apathy of their constituents. But political science professor Berger makes the case that it’s neither realistic nor helpful to expect citizens to devote more time and energy to politics. …
by Steven Palmer Peterson
Fourteen years ago, way before I’d penned my first horror-movie script, I found myself studying the philosophy of science at Rutgers. It was something I pursued because it combined the two most unmarketable majors available in college: philosophy and quantum mechanics. …
Steven Brill’s journey into the American public school system began at an epicenter of failure and dysfunction: New York City’s “rubber rooms,” the “temporary reassignment centers” where teachers sat in a sort of purgatory. Judged by the new school administration to be incompetent or abusive, and sometimes even charged with crimes, they couldn’t be in classrooms—but because of state tenure laws and their own contracts, they couldn’t be fired, either.
For as long as three to five years, teachers sent to the rubber room clocked in regular school hours, took home paychecks, earned their pension—and did nothing—as the union and the city would go through arbitration. …
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