Think Past the Establishment
The Lindsay Clancy case should begin with the three children who were killed: Cora, Dawson and Callan. Yet victims too often become secondary as courts and the public concentrate on an offender’s illness, childhood, intentions and prospects for rehabilitation.
The Trump administration wants to strip private schools of federal tax-exempt status if they use racial preferences in admissions, hiring, scholarships or other programs. The proposal could affect roughly 18,000 institutions, from elementary schools to universities, and would target discriminatory practices even when DEI offices are renamed.
The Justice Department plans to deploy 1,000 monitors for November’s midterms, potentially its largest election-monitoring operation. Federal monitors have served under both parties, but the expansion is prompting disputes over where they can operate and whether local officials must consent.
Private real-estate networks can give selected agents and buyers access to homes absent from public listing sites. Congress is scrutinizing Compass and a Chicago-area listing service over practices that reserve some homes for private networks, potentially disadvantaging buyers searching public websites.
Nepal’s hydropower boom promised jobs and independence, but workers building dams and tunnels bear dangers hidden behind the promise of clean energy. The broader lesson: switching energy sources does not eliminate hazardous work or weak labor protections.
A free society needs more than protection against government interference. It also needs shared obligations, civic loyalty and institutions capable of preserving the conditions of self-government.