Editorials

This worldwide pandemic is probably the most serious public health crisis threatening the lives of millions worldwide. The Northern Mariana Islands, with its small population of over 50,000 people, has a fairly isolated location in the Pacific, which has spared our people from the brunt of this inf…

WHEN the local people were finally allowed to leave Camp Chalan Kanoa 74 years ago, they had to return to a new world strewn with the debris of a war not of their making, and not of their choice. The local people had no enemies, but the bullets and the bombs did not know that. The war was not their…

In his introductory remarks, J.M. Jack Peters, the director of NMC’s Business Development Center, said: “Historically, the CNMI has economically outperformed every U.S. territory or insular area, some states, and most of its Pacific island neighbors. As my friends on Tinian might say: the CNMI took…

At the moment, President Trump doesn’t appear to be gaining on Mr. Biden in the 2020 presidential race, but rather doing the opposite: fading further back in the polls. Yet 18 weeks remain before Election Day — an eternity in the era of Trump, when big shocks come with stunning regularity. Consider…

There are similar now-unconstitutional laws on the books across the nation — many of them borne of anti-Catholic bigotry — that subvert religious liberty and further empower government, rather than parents, to make educational choices for their kids. In most cases, those laws are now dead. Some of …

Save for scattered notes of disapproval from historians, life largely went on. No longer. The ire of the mob has now shifted from Robert E. Lee and his comrades in gray to include such disparate figures as Washington, Lincoln, Francis Scott Key, Miguel de Cervantes, Ulysses S. Grant, Father Juníper…

It is. Courts are so jammed that innocent people plead guilty to avoid waiting years for a trial. Lawyers help rich people get special treatment. A jail stay is just as likely to teach you crime as it is to help you get a new start. Overcrowded prisons cost a fortune and increase suffering for both…

When I came across those words while reading Walter Block’s “Defending the Undefendable,” I was struck by the power of that under-appreciated insight (not to mention his great introduction to libertarianism opening the book). Block’s primary illustration was the rental housing market, where “the sp…