by Bernie Horn | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog
School “reformers” have, for decades, promoted the idea of extending the number of school days per year, from the current norm of 180 days to 190 or 200. Yet for all their talk, there has been extremely little evidence that two or four additional weeks of school would...
by Bernie Horn | Nov 10, 2017 | Blog
In the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting, authorities and interest groups have put on a master class in how to bamboozle the media and whitewash unpleasant truths. It's time to talk about what's really happening with guns and gun violence in our country. As we all...
by Bernie Horn | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
We are about to embark on a nationwide debate over taxes. Newspapers want to call this a debate over “tax reform.” It is not. Progressives should never say “tax reform” and never accept this phrase as the basis for debate. Whether it’s a matter before federal, state...
by Bernie Horn | Aug 17, 2017 | Blog
As white supremacists and neo-Nazis crawl out of the woodwork and try to infest our communities with hate, it is important to contest their revisionist history. Yes, take down the statues that were erected to whitewash the Confederate cause and directly or indirectly...
by Bernie Horn | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog
Political activists have a notion that there is something beyond logic and self-interest that drives the choices of average voters. We know that low-income Whites often vote against their own economic interests. We know that very religious Americans often support...
