Americans again mourned the 2,977 people murdered on Sept. 11, 2001. At the Pentagon, President Donald Trump renewed the nation’s vow never to forget and said America must be “strong” and “smart.” That vow asks more of Washington than remembrance. It requires the imagination to prepare for dangers that will not look like the last […]
Last week, the Trump administration floated the idea of redirecting federal child-care aid so low-income married stay-at-home parents could get a $9,000 subsidy per...
All the speeches at the convention in Dallas last week were fine, but I didn’t hear the one I’m still waiting for President Donald Trump to deliver. It’s the one where he expresses contrition for the things he got wrong and explains clearly his rationale for what he got right. It’s not really a speech […]
Social Security, the bedrock of our nation’s retirement system, is projected to become insolvent in just six years, with benefit cuts of 22% if Congress doesn’t act. Social Security is barreling toward insolvency due to the fundamental imbalance between its incoming revenues and outgoing benefits. As our population ages and benefits cost more, the program’s […]
Republicans gathered in Dallas for an unusual mid-cycle convention to shore up the base ahead of November’s midterm elections. President Donald Trump headlined the event because he has the most to lose. He is not on the ballot, but his job is. And he knows it. In Dallas on Wednesday during his nearly two-hour speech, […]
The fall of Mokha was a lesson for Riyadh about alliances: the Mecca pact produced a courier, America’s older allies produced restrictions on American access, and the only partnership that has actually fought Iran’s network this year has an American hand on it. This is the lesson for Washington, and it has a date on […]
