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What Constitutes Profanity on Television Today?

Should you be able to use the word “squat” on network television? The specific issue being addressed in FCC vs. Fox Television Stations is pretty narrow and, well, uninteresting. It primarily has something to do with FCC procedures and administrative law....

Why Are We So Unhappy?

If only each of us had an Oddball in our lives to keep out some of the negative waves. If it bleeds it leads is the long held mantra of news agencies throughout the world. Its national news if a factory closes. Its local news if a factory opens. If a bomb explodes in...

U.S. Public Schools: Pass or Fail?

The American psyche is prone to fits of paranoia and hysteria about our collective status in the world. Less than a decade into the massification of the internet, a feat brought about in no small part by American technology and genius, we are being inundated with...

Higher Education and Immigration

A reader writes: Brian, I don’t disagree with your analysis, and I don’t have any information to back me up on this, but I think the one thing that has Americans most concerned about the current state of education in this country is that I suspect our...

Chicago Public Schools: What Percent of Students Even Graduate?

During his campaign, Barack Obama alleged that only 70% of high school students graduate with a diploma. This astonished me so I dug further. Overall, I have a pretty positive view of the education system in this country. There is essentially no debating that the...