Are the American people better informed than ever before, or worse informed? Have advances in technology and communication brought us more information and access to the news -- or less than in the past? For starters, compare this year's political … [Read more...] about Do Americans Get Enough News?

President Carter started his recent address to the League of Women Voters with what he and his audience apparently thought was a joke. The typed transcript shows the word "(Laughter)" immediately after it. The President said, "When people ask me … [Read more...] about A Better Class of Problems?

Americans who like to cheer for the underdog, for a David who wins his fight against a Goliath, have a new hero. Larry E. Parrish, a lawyer of Memphis, Tennessee, won a major court case this spring against 15 high-priced lawyers representing some of … [Read more...] about A Victory Over Obscenity

"Who will be Ronald Reagan's choice for a running mate?" seems to be the only major question not yet resolved about either of the National Nominating Conventions scheduled for this summer. At least three factors make Reagan's choice this year … [Read more...] about Who Will Be Reagan’s Running Mate?

Some people call it a social time bomb, some a keg of dynamite, some an urban crisis. Others just wring their hands and say it is depressing and demoralizing. Billions of tax dollars have been spent in a vain effort to solve the problem, but it … [Read more...] about A Jobs Strategy for Young Blacks

The OPEC nations are going to increase the price of oil again, this time to about $33 per barrel. Do the OPEC nations literally have us over a barrel so that we must pay any price set by their whim? The United States Government owns immense oil … [Read more...] about Why Oil Prices Are So High

During the 1976 presidential campaign, candidate Jimmy Carter hatched some chickens that have now come home to roost. After he had been caught talking out of both sides of his mouth on abortion, he tried to defuse that issue by talking about the … [Read more...] about Rigging the Results of the White House Conference

“Everybody makes mistakes" is the common excuse for our fumbling, bumbling foreign policy which leaves us buffeted back and forth by dictators and losing at least a country a year to Communism. While everybody does indeed make mistakes, those who … [Read more...] about Everybody Makes Mistakes?

Do American citizens have the right to know that members of the Communist, Nazi, KKK, or Trolskyite parties are not hired as government employees? Or that terrorists are not hired at a nuclear plant? Do hospital patients have the right to know that … [Read more...] about Public and Private Employee Security

Like other White House conferences of previous years, the White House Conference on Families (WHCF) was designed to engage in "national planning," that is, to devise legislative proposals clothed in the trappings of grassroots participation. The … [Read more...] about White House Conference on Families