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Want to win the election? Get a great speechwriter

I wonder whether my hearing is failing. Should I get it tested? In this seminal presidential election year, I haven’t heard the answers from either side about the issues bearing down on the country. The over-coverage of the Iowa caucuses was in direct proportion to the candidates’ ...

Lessons to learn from university presidents

What will come of the presidents of three of America’s most prestigious universities being called on the congressional carpet to explain their responses to Hamas’ brutal assault on innocent Israelis? Will the resignations of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill and Harvard ...

Why aren’t Candidates talking about the debt crisis?

As America turns its eyes to New Hampshire and its first-in-the-nation presidential primary, a group of concerned politicians and activists want to turn the nation’s attention to its $34 trillion federal debt crisis. That was why a group of fiscal hawks gathered in Manchester, N.H., last ...

Plan for Bayh-Dole Act threatens patients, innovators

Doesn’t it seem as if there’s an extraordinary innovation announced every day? Thanks to some of the world’s greatest incentives and smartest scientists, Americans have become accustomed to incredible inventions, many of which have been at least partly funded by federal government ...

The German government gambled against farmers and lost

In December, a convoy of 1,700 tractors blocked the main road to Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. Honking and chanting could be heard all over the city as farmers bashed the government’s plan to end tax breaks on fuel and agricultural vehicles in the 2024 budget. Under Chancellor Olaf ...