Corn is now central to the way America functions as a nation, socially, economically and politically. And that means big power—not just at home but also abroad.
The fight over new civics education standards isn’t a mere academic squabble. It’s about resisting and rejecting a corrosive left-wing view of America.
The advocates for EAD have smartly put a nonpartisan looking pedagogy at the center of the project, but it doesn’t take a Marx or Foucault to discern the vigorous politics embedded in the method.
It is the supreme arrogance of the current administration that they can enact such irresponsible border policies and expect no social dysfunction to result.
The GOP can still use the debt limit debate to demand cuts to unnecessary programs and left-wing slush funds. But the timing is wrong to escalate this into a shutdown.