Will: Donald Trump’s “Oh, never mind” presidency
Donald Trump has rewarded his voters with a swift shedding of campaign commitments, a repudiation so comprehensive and cavalier that he disdains disguising his disdain for his gulled supporters.
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Will: A case for preventing children’s scraped knees
When not furrowing their collective brows about creches and displays of the Ten Commandments here and there, courts often are pondering tangential contacts between the government and religious schools.
Will: In PBS series, experience America at the time of the Great War
On Monday night and the next two nights, PBS's "American Experience" will present a six-hour documentary, "The Great War." Watch it and wince.
Will: End the filibuster’s power of obstruction
The Senate's coming confirmation of Neil Gorsuch will inadvertently improve the Senate -- if Republicans are provoked to thoroughly reform the filibuster.
Will: An oasis of liberty in the Arizona sun
As a boy, Barry Goldwater Jr., son of the former senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee, would step out of his father's house and shoot at tin cans 50 yards...
Will: Whatever replaces Obamacare will look a lot like Obamacare
"Mend it, don't end it" was Bill Clinton's rhetorical straddle regarding affirmative action. Republican efforts to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act look increasingly like "mend it, don't end...
Will: The NEA is a government frill that should be shorn
Although the National Endowment for the Arts' 2016 cost of $148 million was less than one-hundredth of 1 percent of the federal budget, attempting to abolish the NEA is a...
Will: A place to learn and celebrate America’s foundational principles
TEMPE, Ariz. --聽Encouraging developments are as welcome as they are rare in colleges and universities that cultivate diversity in everything but thought. Fortunately, state legislatures, alumni and philanthropists are planting...
Will: Lionel Shriver offers a wry squint into our grim future
In her 13th novel, "The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047," Lionel Shriver imagines America slouching into dystopia merely by continuing current practices.
Will: America’s pension crisis was predictable
America's most persistent public dishonesties are the wildly optimistic, but politically convenient, expectations for returns on pension fund investments.