A quarter century later, 9/11 still challenges how we remember, heal, and serve.

Equal, predictable, and transparent rules are the backbone of a functioning democracy.

Picture a family living on a quiet street in an idyllic small town. Then a data center moves in next door. Trees are knocked down for a sprawling industrial campus, an enormous windowless building rises, and a maddening hum continues day and night. The family closes its windows, abandons the backyar...

The theory of trickle-down economics was conceived in an era of localized economies. It failed primarily because its core mechanism—reinvesting tax savings into the domestic economy—was short-circuited by U.S. outbound foreign investment and global financial integration.

Have you lost your ability to feel hopeful about our country? If so, you may be able to regain it by doing something counterintuitive: Think smaller.Here is how I learned this. I recently led a session for a group of smart, accomplished people over 60, most of them liberal. I asked them to consider ...

Gen Z Isn’t Disengaged - It’s Waiting for a Reason to Engage.

Sanders, Mamdani, and other Democratic DSA Candidates Should Resign from the Democratic Socialists of America.

Imagine waking up one day to find your bank account frozen because an AI system has incorrectly identified you as a fraud risk. There is no human to call, only another algorithm reviewing your appeal. Hours later, the error is corrected, but the damage has already been done.Who is actually in charge...

The official recruitment practices haven’t changed, but more than a year after the US State Department’s excavation, a new contract with Military Hire, a subsidiary of RedBalloon, aims to recruit candidates ideologically aligned with the current administration, including Christians. Not an isolated ...

I've been running global civic education programs for twelve years, and I keep seeing the same pattern: college-age students arrive believing they know how the world works and that their perspective is fact. Months later, after sustained global engagement, they return home fundamentally different, w...

To the President of the United States, the Leaders of the Congress, and Our Fellow Americans Entrusted with the Powers of Government: When, in the ordinary course of a free republic, disagreements arise among citizens concerning the proper exercise of power, it is neither unusual nor dishonorable th...

Every afternoon in Texas, the end of the school day creates a daily scramble for families. Five out of six parents say they want after-school care, but cannot access it.The demand for after-school programs is not theoretical.In about 70% of Texas families with children ages 6 to 17, all available pa...

America's safety net has new administrators. They are not government agencies. They are nonprofits and are making decisions using algorithms.Nationally, civil society organizations are using AI to determine who receives food assistance, emergency shelter, and medical referrals. In an era of federal ...

Imagine opening an app on your phone and placing a bet on whether peace talks between two countries will fail, a conflict will escalate, or a terrorist attack will occur before the end of the year.For a growing number of people, that is no longer a hypothetical scenario.Prediction markets, online pl...

Many people who have served, or are still serving in the military, are not thrilled with the state of our country. There are plenty of active duty members who wish they could quit–and many of them are in my DMs asking for my advice–which might be why the number of military personnel inquiring about ...

MIAMI, FLA — After twin earthquakes shook parts of Northwestern and Central Venezuela last month, relief efforts have been quickly organized, particularly in South Florida, where the largest relief efforts are being organized. Miami-Dade County is currently home to the largest Venezuelan diaspora in...

A small, partisan electorate decides races long before most Americans can vote.

Cuts and chaos in federal data systems leave policymakers struggling for facts.

Gertrude Stein famously wrote, A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, meaning everyone knows what a rose is. The same cannot be said of a Socialist. There are many Democratic politicians who proudly call themselves Socialists or Democratic Socialists, and there are many adversaries who brand those ...

At the New York Knicks NBA Championship parade last month, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers of all stripes came together to celebrate the first Knicks title win in 53 years. The city united in public exuberance as strangers hugged, chanted, and danced together in the streets. In a deeply divided...

On June 17, President Trump capped off his trip to Europe with a lavish dinner at the Palace of Versailles. The president seemed almost giddy at the prospect, saying how pleased he was by French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation. As Trump explained, Versailles was “not gold leaf” but the “real ...

I was recently catching up with an old friend from my Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps days who told me about some young sailors he knew in Bahrain tasked with intercepting hostile drones. Critically, as highly disciplined professionals, they have become extraordinarily good at it. My friend and ...

I suspected that my answer to the gentle but surprisingly direct query about my politics would have a bearing on my long-term prospects to be welcomed at the dog park. Picking up on my questioner’s left-of-center sensibilities, I’d hoped my confession about being Strom Thurmond’s illegitimate child ...

July 4th, 2026, will be the 250th anniversary of the Declaration. One of the foundational documents of the United States, the Declaration has been taught in many ways: as America’s breakup letter, as a rallying cry for freedom, and as an example of the legal assertion of a right to rebellion—derived...