Every ten years, based on the results of the decennial US census, state legislatures redraw their US House districts. Some states gain seats, some lose seats, still others go through internal population shifts that require reorganization.…
Posts published in “IPR Editorials”
Joel Schlosberg: You Can’t Have the State Highway Your Way
The Empire Center’s James Hanley tells readers of The Wall Street Journal that “anyone who wants to pay more to go green should have that choice” (“Congratulations, You’ve Won a Higher Electric Bill!,”…
Thomas Knapp: Who Owns the Holocaust?
On February 1, ABC News suspended Whoopi Goldberg, of popular talk show “The View,” for two weeks over “wrong and hurtful” comments concerning the Holocaust.
The Holocaust, Goldberg said, is “not about race.…
Thomas Knapp: The Remedy to be Applied in Neil Young v. Joe Rogan
“They can have Neil Young or [Joe] Rogan. Not Both.” Thus the ultimatum from legendary musician Young, over his concerns with what he deems “misinformation” on the subject of COVID-19 vaccines, to streaming service Spotify.…
Thomas Knapp: The Choice in ‘School Choice’ is Mostly Government’s, Not Yours
Now in its second decade, National School Choice Week (observed January 23-29 this year) concentrates that movement’s steady, decades-long drumbeat into a few days of all-out advocacy.…
George Phillies: How to Fix the LNC
Over the past few years, our party has struggled with the differences between advocates of developing tools for ballot access and advocates of growing the party by showing our practical successes.…
Thomas Knapp: Raise Congressional Pay — And Tax the Rich!
“Young investors have a new strategy,” National Public Radio’s Tim Mak reported on September 21: “Watching financial disclosures of sitting members of Congress for stock tips.”…
Thomas Knapp: Sedition is the Foundational American Political Trait
As the founder and leader of Oath Keepers, an organization allegedly organized to defend the US Constitution, Stewart Rhodes seems like the last guy one might expect to “conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof” (18 U.S.…
America’s Third Parties Can Help to Curb Extremism of the Two-Party System
When the Republican Party ousted Liz Cheney from a leadership position, it exposed a major ideological divide within the current GOP. That caused some people, including prominent Republicans, to suggest there might be a third party in the making.…









