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Guns in America
The Distorted Politics of Gun Control

Gun control and tough-on-crime policy are two sides of the same coin. Both require a stronger police presence, and both have racially disparate outcomes.

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What to Do About Woodrow

Should Princeton knock the twenty-eighth president off his perch?

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Is Crime Spiking?

It’s too early to say—and neither side of the debate should be claiming vindication just yet.

2016 And Beyond
The DNC Doubles Down

The Democratic Party may be overconfident in the popularity of its current policy agenda and the durability of the coalition it has constructed.

Higher Education Watch
Campus Activists Are Playing with Fire

The American people as a whole stand behind the Bill of Rights, even if college students don’t. Any mass movement blithely tossing the First Amendment aside is playing with fire.

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New Yorker Whiffs on Free Speech

Echoing a line of thinking used after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Jelani Cobb implies that privileged people should not have the freedom to offend the non-privileged.

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The Real Reason the Left Opposes the Safe Campus Act

Watch the upcoming battle over the Safe Campus Act closely. It’s about more than reporting technicalities; it’s about an ongoing culture war that will resonate for a generation.

Election Results
Republican Victories Highlight 2016 Stakes

Democrats should be worried about the extent of the clobbering they have endured over the past six years in state and local elections.

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Mortality Study Should Raise Doubts About Assisted Suicide

A new analysis on mortality paints a picture of a population with exactly the qualities—desperation, depression, deteriorating physical condition—that we should be worried about when it comes to physician-assisted suicide.

Are you PC?
Campus Free Speech Poll: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

A helpful new nationwide survey of college students’ attitudes toward PC-related issues gets us somewhat closer to understanding how college students really feel about political correctness, trigger warnings, and freedom of speech.

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