Amid the confusion and frenzy of President Trump’s recent executive order, which barred U.S. entrance to scores of immigrants and refugees alike, one recent event in American politics that failed to...
Judge Neil Gorsuch is one of the most accomplished and respected legal minds on the federal bench.
A graduate of Columbia, Oxford and a classmate of President Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, he has...
In recent weeks, the nomination of Betsy DeVos for the position of Secretary of Education has received considerable attention from news media, politicians and ordinary American citizens.
DeVos, who is...
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has existed since the aftermath of the Civil War.
Some of the essential tasks that the DOJ must carry out on a daily basis are “to enforce the law and defend...
In recent days, President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominations have received lots of attention from political leaders on all sides of the aisle and beyond.
Whether it is politicians, the news media, advocacy...
The common claim that the 2016 presidential election is in many ways unprecedented doesn’t attract as much attention as it once did.
Despite how stunned and appalled many Americans were when they realized...
The future of America’s immigrants is more uncertain than it has ever been in recent years.
Roughly 235 thousand immigrants were deported in 2015, and even that number is the lowest figure since President...
Ever since the Arab Spring, the extreme and now seemingly intractable conflict in Syria has gone from bad to worse.
All told, describing the situation using words like dire and catastrophic does not begin...
Now is the time for a reckoning in North Carolina and across the U.S.
These past few months have brought us a presidential campaign filled with mudslinging, hateful comments toward numerous racial, ethnic,...
Americans in today’s society cannot agree in any significant way on a definition of the word “greatness” as it relates to our politics.
The president-elect has sought almost single-handedly to marshal...
The incisive journalist Scott Anderson paid a visit to Wake Forest on Oct. 26 to discuss his landmark narrative for the “New York Times Magazine” entitled “Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came...
In any election in which we choose who our next commander-in-chief will be, it can be easy for voters to only focus on the choices for president, and they often do that at the expense of devoting their...
