[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] One of the aspects of the federal government that regular people find mystifying (and, when they learn the details, astonishing)…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] There’s quite a story to be told about the conflict between Alabama Governor George Wallace and Federal Judge Frank Johnson,…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] How did the Soviets, with their pathetic, poverty-creating, “Progressive” economic system, keep fighting the Cold War decade after decade? What…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] Every day as I read through stacks of dead-tree and virtual newspapers, I come across studies. Lots and lots of…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] It’s one of the ideas that Donald Trump gets wrong: He thinks of Political Correctness as an effort to avoid…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] The world of public policy is full of messes created by government. During World War II,…
In 1980, I was a political reporter in Alabama, covering the U.S. Senate race. The candidates were Jim Folsom Jr., son of a former governor, and Jeremiah Denton,…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] Google is considering ways to rank websites by “trustworthiness” rather than by (relatively) objective standards such as frequency…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] I was a child in Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. One day in 1961, a bus…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] When the writer Lillian Hellman was buried, America's elite turned out for her funeral. Katherine Graham, chairman of the board…