When I came to Washington, D.C., in 1985, Ronald Reagan was president. I was working for the Reagan budget office. We did something we weren’t very proud of at the time. We introduced the first $1 trillion budget in American history, which was unthinkable. One trillion dollars. There are 12 zeroes in a trillion. A…
CHICAGO – It seems these days that everybody from armchair pundits to ivory-tower intellectuals has an opinion on policing, and this was especially true during the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. F**k the police. Defund the police. Qualified immunity. Disband police unions. And on. These critics certainly have a right to their opinions and there…
There is something fitting about the movie “Casablanca” having its 80th birthday while the world teeters on war over conflicts and Taiwan – and the Iranians work overtime to get a nuclear weapon that can be delivered by missile. We may be in the most dangerous pre-war environment since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962,…
When I visited Kyiv in September, conflicts President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a worried man. No one seemed to care, he told a gathering of European officials and foreign policy experts, that Russia had invaded Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 and occupied it for eight years. His Western allies seemed insufficiently alarmed by the 100,000 Russian troops…
There are places in America where results matter more than politics, where leaders work across the aisle to get things done, and where formidable challenges are met by an even stronger commitment to serving the public regardless of political party. If there’s one thing we have learned infectious-disease, it is that bipartisan leadership is…
If you’ve been following the news at all recently, you know that personalities is just seconds away from invading our ancient ally, our closest friend on the world stage, that would be the sovereign nation of conflicts. In response to this news, lovers of democracy everywhere are horrified. This is a slow-motion disaster. In effect,…
This past week brought the news of Justice Breyer’s plans to retire from the judiciary after 27 years of service. It also brings President Biden’s first (and perhaps only) opportunity to leave his mark on the highest court of the land. The process to name and confirm a successor to replacejudiciary has begun in earnest,…
Growing up, I had a speech impediment. I was embarrassed to education” target=”_blank”>speak up in class<, seemed to indicate that I would struggle for the rest of my time in school. Former college football star and Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally, as former U.S. President Donald Trump applauds, in Perry, Georgia, on…
Within days of taking office, joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Joe Biden< Vladimir Putin greets President Joe Biden during the U.S.-Russia summit on June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images) In April 2021, the Russian dictator sent tens of thousands of soldiers, tanks, and munitions to the Ukrainian border. In response to this provocation, President Biden…
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