Dear President Biden: Since the horrific mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, nationwide calls for stronger gun control have intensified. On May 30, you told reporters that popular legislative proposals like an assault weapons ban and stricter background checks are up to Congress, saying, “I ...
Voters in a small Michigan community recently voted to defund the local public library for refusing to censor LGBTQ authors. One of the talking points used by the local voters essentially followed the line: “Don’t support a mill levy increase for the library if the library is going to ...
Congress has passed the Inflation Reduction Act. President Biden says this is a success story, in part because it will reduce the deficit by $305 billion over the next decade. IRA mainly reduces the deficit by raising taxes and regulating drug prices; the act increases federal spending and ...
This last spring, I was in Washington for an awards dinner given by the American Task Force on Lebanon. The talents of the exceptionally gifted Lebanese were on display: The room was filled with accomplished expatriates and immigrants — business leaders, diplomats, physicians, writers and ...
Early one evening in February 1946, Harry Truman summoned the White House’s chief usher to the second-floor Oval Study. He pointed out the window through the South Portico to the Washington Monument and Potomac River beyond. “That’s a magnificent sight,” he said. Then he dropped his ...
On the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, while a mob invaded the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump spent three hours sitting in the Oval Office dining room calling various members of the House and Senate, including Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, and Josh Hawley. Wouldn’t you love to know whom he ...
