In this age of mass migration, U.S. immigration policy has mixed relative openness to immigration (since 1965) with nativist hostility toward immigrants. On the state level, we have seen a wave of anti-immigrant legislation (like the Arizona “papers, please” law). On the federal level, the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border coupled with spasms of […]

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(Image source: Reuters) Oh, the indignation. Attorney General Eric Holder is using Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act to challenge the way the Texas Legislature redrew the state’s electoral districts and Republicans in Texas are “shocked, shocked!” A bit of background. Earlier this summer the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the 1965 […]

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(Image courtesy of Just Economics) Residents of the small city of SeaTac, Washington, will vote in November on a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. If approved, it would surpass the highest minimum wage in the country, San Francisco’s $10.55, by $4.45. Home of Washington’s biggest airport and thousands of […]

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(Image courtesy of the Buffalo News) Barry Friedman and Dahlia Lithwick, writing at Slate, inquire whether progressivism has abandoned every cause except gay marriage. I would argue, paraphrasing Twain, that rumors of progressivism’s demise are exaggerated. Rather than a retreat from principles, progressivism is experiencing a period of transition. The largest attack on U.S. soil […]

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I wonder what it is that other people see about Secretary of State John Kerry’s Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough that I’m missing. The fundamentals haven’t changed. The Palestinian Authority’s goal is to achieve a peace agreement with Israel in which it (again) recognizes Israel and Israel agrees to the establishment of a Palestinian state in the occupied […]

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