After five frenzied weeks, our friends in the United Kingdom have a new prime minister, Rishi Sunak. Maybe he’ll prove less crazy than the others, maybe not. But why should we care? Shouldn’t we just worry about our own uniquely American brand of crazy? If only it were that simple. The ...
In the aftermath of another turbulent election season, maybe it’s time for politicians, regulatory agencies and the media to return to something that feels almost quaint: the truth. During World War II, the “Superman” radio show writers coined the phrase “Truth, Justice and the American ...
As we start to emerge from the dark COVID cloud, there were some rays of sunshine in terms of the progress that healthcare made in 2022. Congress acted in a bipartisan manner to fund research and vaccines and, oddly enough, spent little energy arguing about whether people deserved healthcare ...
It feels like Yogi Berra’s déjà vu all over again. A populist protest on the streets of Iran — channeling Iranians’ hopes for democratic freedom and a joining of the modern world — is put down violently by Iran’s brutal theocrats who deface Islam by using our faith as a perverted ...
The pushback against Environmental, Social and Governance has begun. It’s coming from market influencers like Vivek Ramaswamy, cultural influencers like Dilbert creator Scott Adams lambasting it in his (banned) comic strips, and 19 Republican governors going after the banks that push it. ...
It was 1998—the year I turned 21 years old and close to the exact moment the ship I was deployed on entered the waters of the Persian Gulf. At the time, it was the most significant military build-up in U.S. history since Desert Storm. My mission was to lead a group of Marines in recovering ...
