Social Issues

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Illustration on Trump and the "great silent majority" by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Illustration on the state of intellectual life in the nation and on college campuses by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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A survey finds that 40 percent of American women approve of the idea of being included in the U.S. military draft. (Selective Service System)

In this May, 25, 2016, file photo, Baylor University President Ken Starr leaves a terminal at the airport in Waco, Texas. Starr resigned as Baylor's chancellor Wednesday, June 1, 2016, a week after he was removed as president of the Texas school amid a scandal over its treatment of sexual assault cases involving football players. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune Herald, via AP, File)

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The Delta County Republican Central Committee in Colorado has blamed hackers for a racist meme posted on an official's Facebook page, even though the official previously said it was intended to be a joke. (BigMedia.org)

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The Delta County Republican Central Committee in Colorado has blamed an official's racist Facebook meme comparing President Obama to a chimpanzee on the work of hackers, even though the official previously said it was intended to be a joke. (BigMedia.org)

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Immigrants posted a record high of 43 million, with major increases in arrivals from eastern and southern Asia and from Latin American countries outside of Mexico, the Center for Immigration Studies said. (Associated Press)

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Industrial hemp activists make their case at an "all hemp" luncheon staged in an elegant townhouse called Elizabeth's on L, just north of the White House.

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director Leon Rodriguez claimed poverty, saying his agency is strapped for cash, and the $1.1 million it would cost to produce the names of 50,000 illegal immigrants would spawn "backlogs" in other services for legal immigrants. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell (right) looks on as President Obama delivers remarks during a meeting with people that wrote him letters explaining how they benefited from the Affordable Care Act in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 3, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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In this photo taken Sunday, May 29, 2016 migrants attend to disembark from the Italian Navy Vega vessel, in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy, after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the coasts of Libya. Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the past week, even as rescue ships saved thousands of others in daring operations. (AP Photo/Adriana Sapone)

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Inflammatory: A protester sets a Donald Trump campaign hat on fire during a rally Friday in San Diego. Polling suggests voters blame the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for violence but blame rioters even more. (San Diego Union-Tribune via Associated Press)

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Illustration on Memorial Day by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency

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In this May 25, 2016, file photo made available by the Italian Navy, people try to jump in the water right before their boat overturns off the Libyan coast. Over 700 migrants are feared dead in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days as they tried desperately to reach Europe in unseaworthy smuggling boats, the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday, May 29, 2016. (Italian navy via AP Photo, file)

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In this March 13, 2015, file photo, Mark Salling arrives at the 32nd Annual Paleyfest "Glee" held at The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Salling, who played bad-boy Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the Fox musical dramedy "Glee," was charged Friday, May 27, 2016, with receiving and possessing child pornography. The 33-year-old actor was charged with two counts, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 30 AND THEREAFTER - In this May 24, 2016, photo, Republican state Rep. Bob Dettmer talks in his office in St. Paul, Minn., about a provision included in this year's supplemental budget bill that would exempt military retirement pay from Minnesota's income tax. Dettmer, a retired U.S. Army reserve warrant officer, has long been a champion of veteran's issues at the state Capitol. (AP Photo/Kevin Burbach)

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 photo, health workers get ready to spray insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus, under the bleachers of the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, which will be used for the Archery competition in the 2016 summer games. More than 145 public health experts signed an open letter to the World Health Organization on Friday, May 27, 2016 asking the U.N. health agency to consider whether the Rio de Janeiro Olympics should be postponed or moved because of the ongoing Zika outbreak. The letter calls for the games to be delayed or relocated "in the name of public health." (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

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This undated photo provided by Braeburn Pharmaceuticals shows the Probuphine opioid implant. Federal health officials on Thursday, May 26, 2016, approved the innovative new option for Americans struggling with addiction to heroin and painkillers: a drug-oozing implant that curbs craving and withdrawal symptoms for six months at a time. The implant is essentially a new, long-term delivery system for an established drug, buprenorphine, which has long been used to treat opioid addiction. (Braeburn Pharmaceuticals via AP)