Steven Miller
Reds, Part II
If you want to understand why the AFL-CIO brass made a hard-left turn in the 1990s, some closed-door remarks of federation President John Sweeney provide a major clue.
Reds
Well, it’s official now. Both the Communist Party USA and Democratic Socialists of America are urging U.S. voters to support the Democratic Party this election.
The ‘Open Meeting Law’ Distraction
For many months now, Nevada’s university regents have been virtually locked in the public stocks over what the Attorney General and a district court judge recently agreed were violations of the state’s open meeting law.
With Some Fava Beans
It was in the film version of Silence of the Lambs that writer Thomas Harris’ unforgettable character, Hannibal Lecter, was introduced to the broader American public.
Free the Teachers
In 1996 a group of concerned teachers visited NPRI’s sister think tank in Washington state, the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF), and asked for help protecting their paychecks and their free speech rights.
Artful Dodgers and ‘National Average Funding’
The so-called “national average funding” constitutional amendment on November’s ballot would—despite its name—actually raise the total per-pupil tax burden on Nevadans significantly above the national average.
The Calculus of Consent
Many readers will notice that the title atop this essay also graced the cover of one of the watershed books of the 20th Century.
The Predator Coalition
Almost 100 years ago, the German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer had the audacity to acknowledge that, throughout human history, there have been only two ways to acquire wealth—the economic means and the political means.
The Horns of the Court
"Government protects government,” observed Secretary of State Dean Heller last month.
Nevada’s alienation factories
Early in the 20th Century, when corporatists, socialists and other self-proclaimed “progressives” were casting around for ways to sell their various collectivisms to mainstream America, the concept of industrial mass production struck many of them as just the ticket.