Kyle Sammin

Do you consider your neighborhood safe? How about your city? Or your county? If you answered “yes,” you're fortunate. If […]

As we approach America's 250th birthday, families are choosing to revisit this country's history by touring national monuments, parks, and sites across the many states.

We can all agree that few things are more important to a child's growth and future success than attending a school that provides a nurturing environment and an excellent education. In the Great Northeast, we are fortunate to have excellent public and private schools. As a state Senator, I support educational opportunities of all kinds.

Who on earth is Lance Schroyer? It’s a question on the lips of many political observers in the United States following President Donald Trump’s announcement that Schroyer will be his nominee as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency — which has frequently been in the national spotlight as it has led the crackdown [...]Read More...

I have been publicly calling the bureaucratic scheme to impose storm water taxes upon residents of affected municipalities illegal since

Ro Khanna came to Congress in 2017 as a rich man supported by even richer men. As Silicon Valley’s representative in the House of Representatives, Khanna balanced the need to make the right noises about progressive social values while respecting the capitalist system that made him and many of his patrons so wealthy. He was [...]Read More...

In this semiquincentennial year , 1776 is on many Americans' minds. But in The Louisiana Purchase: The Grand Bargain and the Making of America

Twelve years ago, my mother passed away. It was Aug. 8, 2014, in the very early hours of a Thursday […]

The 2026 midterms are fast approaching, and the players are already manoeuvring ahead of the presidential election in two years’ time. As they do so, one phrase is increasingly on Democrats’ lips: “Supreme Court reform”. Which is to say, court-packing. Behind the innocuous, focus-group-tested phrasing lies an ugly message: Democrats are finished with appeals to [...]Read More...

For all the talk we hear of “democracy,” no one in this country — or any other country — has ever lived in a pure democratic state. In ancient times, law came from a tribal leader, or king. Later in Anglo-American history, judges made law (or, more accurately, memorialized existing customs) in common law courts. Since Anglo-Saxon times, legislatures also were a part of this process, at first as advisory bodies to the king, and then little by little becoming the places where laws were written.