I fear that somewhere along the line, mainstream media has forgotten its obligation to society. It was 63 years ago, (on May 9, 1961) that new Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow gave ...

Democrats’ hatred for him led them to tolerate radical, vicious ideas that are colonizing their party.

Without being judgmental, consider all of the government policies that would have been considered unthinkable not so long ago. There’s school choice options like charter schools, vouchers and publicly ...

The range of acceptable ideas in a population within a certain time frame. Coined in the mid-1990s by Joseph P. Overton (1960-2003), vice president at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan ...

A Sept. 22 column (KISS off, you crazy conspiracy theorists!) inaccurately described the “Overton Window,” which is a model for understanding how ideas can become law. The Overton Window is a range of ...

While working in fundraising for the Mackinac Center, Overton developed his Window principle, while explaining to audiences the purpose of think tanks. The essential idea is that there is in every ...

How does the Overton Window shift? How do absurd ideas become part of mainstream discussion while reasonable policy disagreements are pushed outside the bounds of legitimate discourse? This was the ...

From the censorship of textbooks to the 4-day school week, from education vouchers handed out to parents to the hiring of unlicensed teachers, certain principles that seemed immutable are now becoming ...