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Will: In Texas, a Democratic template for national victory in 2020
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,...
George Will: The government’s guidance on campus rape deserves another look
The assault on civil rights that was mandated by the civil rights division of Barack Obama's Education Department might soon abate.
Will: Final queries for Judge Kavanaugh
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”?
Regarding the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Democrats have a Leninist aversion to argument. However, Republicans could usefully ask these questions:
Will: Posing some questions for Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh
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
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...
Will: Markets know better than bureaucrats what society needs
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
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
Will: The future’s only constituency is the conscience of the present
"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”
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."