President Donald Trump’s war on Iran should serve as a wake-up call: The United States of America is strategically lost in the emerging multipolar, neo-mercantilist world and urgently needs to address the widening gap between its expansive legacy strategic commitments and its potentially diminishing relative power. Strategic streamlining and rebalancing to align vital U.S. national […]
This week, the Senate Agriculture Committee is set to debate and mark up the long-overdue Farm Bill — legislation typically associated with crop insurance, nutrition programs, and support for rural communities. But the 2026 Farm Bill also offers Congress a rare opportunity to secure other popular U.S. Department of Agriculture reforms: defunding mad science labs […]
Rent is too high. Groceries cost too much. Sitting behind George Washington’s desk at City Hall this month, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said all of that out loud. He wasn’t wrong about any of it. He was wrong about what to do next. That’s the argument voters will have to settle this November. Not […]
Last month, a strange voter registration application arrived at the home of a longtime Georgia voter. It was addressed to his dog. He quickly forwarded the application to my office at the state capitol with a simple handwritten message: “You do realize Sheba is my dead dog, right?” In the days that followed, complaints poured […]
By Monday night, Western North Carolina Republicans will have done in a few hours what a primary normally accomplishes over several months: choose a nominee, test the party’s coalition, and determine how Republicans will present themselves to general-election voters. That compressed process creates an obvious temptation to reward the contender who is best organized inside […]
President Donald Trump‘s strategy toward Iran raises questions about his grip on reality. Each claim of impending peace, followed by further military engagement, has led to allegations that the president may be a madman. Like President Richard Nixon before him, however, it is possible that far from being insane, Trump is simply embracing the madman […]
The Trump administration’s Board of Peace road map promises Hamas disarmament in exchange for phased Israeli withdrawals. Yet, predictable disputes over sequencing already signal collapse. While the Oct. 7, 2023, butchers demand immediate Israeli retreat, Jerusalem rightly conditions any pullback on verified demilitarization. This arrangement is not statecraft; it is an exercise in self-delusion that […]
For more than 60 years, Head Start has represented one of America’s most important promises: that every child deserves a strong start in life. Over the past several months, I have visited Head Start centers across the country. In classrooms from rural communities to major cities, I have experienced the same inspiring environment again and […]