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The fevered reaction of many progressives to the legitimate conservative exercise of public power polarizes our society more than even the alleged excesses of these policies.

How could anyone object to Dr. Kristin Collier’s plea to care about the human things?

It is likely that the West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency case will shape the structure and operation of the national government for decades to come.

Justice Gorsuch labored mightily, to no avail, to prove that his colleagues had no legal or historical support for either their new default rule or its application in the Oklahoma context

If our state judges are sensible, they will stay out of this fight and instead tell our people they need to relearn the democratic arts of policy experimentation and compromise.

States don’t have to throw the programmatic party, but if they do, everyone has to be invited. You can’t leave religious people out in the cold.

Both the full spectrum of conservatives and wise progressives who want to understand the best thinking of their opponents will find "The Right" indispensable to understanding both how and why important bastions of the Right’s domain, including the Republican Party, fell to the populist Donald Trump.

It’s wrong to look at last week’s events through the lens of policy. In an election year, it’s politics that matters and when you stare through those binoculars, you see a Republican party bleeding from self-inflicted wounds.

This year proved that the Oklahoma House’s turn to reform was not a permanent move to the right; they executed the U-turn many conservatives expected and feared.

Say what you want about Gov. Stitt, but he has, after reports of abuse or mistake, repeatedly and swiftly employed his authority to fire multiple agency heads and try somebody new.