George F. Will

A Texas flag attached to a pickup truck waves outside a shelter in Port Arthur, Texas, on September 2, 2017.
As floodwaters receded in Houston, nearby cities such as Beaumont -- which had lost its water supply -- and Port Arthur struggled to recover. One week after Harvey slammed into southeast Texas as a Category Four hurricane, rescuers were still out searching for people still inside flooded homes.
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Will: In Texas, a Democratic template for national victory in 2020

September 16, 2018 at 8:00 a.m.

In Texas' 7th Congressional District, in what might turn out to be the year's most instructive House race, Democrats seem serious about winning, and if they do with Lizzie Fletcher,...

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos ...

George Will: The government’s guidance on campus rape deserves another look

September 9, 2018 at 6:09 a.m.

The assault on civil rights that was mandated by the civil rights division of Barack Obama's Education Department might soon abate.

In this Aug. 1, 2018, photo, Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh meets with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Will: Final queries for Judge Kavanaugh

September 2, 2018 at 6:01 a.m.

Four decades ago, New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an intellectual Democrat, observed with amazement and regret that Republicans had become the party of ideas. Today, many of America's most...

George Will: Is government truly of, by and for “the people”?

August 30, 2018 at 11:31 a.m.

Regarding the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Democrats have a Leninist aversion to argument. However, Republicans could usefully ask these questions:

President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, arrives to meet with Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee which will oversee his confirmation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. White House Counse Don McGahn is at right, rear. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Will: Posing some questions for Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh

August 26, 2018 at 8:00 a.m.

Senate Republicans and Democrats are at daggers drawn over confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Instead, they should unsheathe some questions designed to illuminate the excitement of constitutional...

Will: In Tennessee Senate race, a pistol-packing Republican vs. an oatmeal Democrat

August 23, 2018 at 4:25 p.m.

The easternmost bit of Tennessee is east of Atlanta, the westernmost bit is west of New Orleans, and all of this horizontal state is the epicenter of 2018 politics. Its...

A couple participate in the Tax Day protest in New York. About half those surveyed say they want a smaller government with fewer services.

Will: Markets know better than bureaucrats what society needs

August 19, 2018 at 8:00 a.m.

A surgeon in Winston-Salem wants to supply something useful for which there is a strong demand. North Carolina's government is, however, an almost insuperable impediment to his doing so.

Poor Portland progressives: So much to protest, so little time

August 12, 2018 at 8:00 a.m.

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

Physicist Albert Einstein (centre) with a group recipients of the National Science Foundation's fellowship, (L-R) Arthur Taub, Kurt Eisemann, Simon Auster, William Frank and Seymour Aronson, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, August 14th 1952. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Will: The future’s only constituency is the conscience of the present

August 5, 2018 at 8:00 a.m.

"Science, like the Mississippi, begins in a tiny rivulet in the distant forest."

Will: A California election could catalyze K-12 improvements — and perhaps end the state’s “dance of the lemons”

August 2, 2018 at 8:00 a.m.

Because about two of California's 277,000 teachers (0.0007 percent) are dismissed each year for unsatisfactory performance, school districts resort to what is called "the dance of the lemons."

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