Education, or (Mis)Information?
I've seen a meme floating around Facebook attributing Donald Trump's popularity to a broken educational system. But this isn't simply an...
Politics Is Not Governance
Sorry for not having a blog post this week, but thought you might like to read my Op Ed piece from Monday's Baltimore Sun. Read the post...
Let's All Play Ball
I have a good buddy who's a huge baseball fan. A real purist. He loves the game for the love of the game. Back in the early 1980's, when...
Come Together
Upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Ben Franklin famously said: "[W]e must all hang together or most assuredly we will...
Let Judges Do Their Jobs
The topics of states' rights, racism, and federal judges have been coming up a lot lately in the news and in social media, in a variety...
What Would the Founding Fathers Do?
With Independence Day coming up, we often hear people talk about the Founding Fathers. That’s what we call the men (and because of gender...
Who Are the Political Parties and What Are They Fighting About?
If you’re a kid who is starting to learn about government, you are probably hearing a lot about “politics” and “politicians” and...
I Can Take It
I probably shouldn’t have called my first book, “How the U.S. Government Works.” I mean, I can’t begin to tell you how many times people...