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Common Sense, Take 2: The Why Before the How- Equality of Opportunity
Who Belongs in America?
The Price of Pride
When a military organization stops feeling like home, it starts losing the very people it needs most.
The Intelligence Community Has a Consumer Problem
America’s spies can collect the truth, analyze the risks, and warn of the consequences. But they cannot force a president to listen.
Is Putin Winning Without Firing a Shot?
The Kremlin never needed Americans to love Russia. It only needed them to distrust democracy, despise institutions, and turn against one another.
It’s a Free Country … Isn’t It?
One emigrated from Russia in 2013 as a teenager. One spent three decades serving the United States. Both are asking the same unsettling question: Is it still a free country?
Common Sense, Take 2: Democracy as a Patient, Part II
Part II: Understanding the Symptoms, Strengthening the System
Iran Defeats America
Trump’s war may be remembered as the moment America surrendered its strategic advantage in the Middle East.
Common Sense Take 2: Democracy as a Patient
Treating the Causes, Not Just the Symptoms, of Democratic Decline
Normalization of Deviance
Danger is not the crisis we see. It’s the behavior we stop noticing.
Under Attack, Still Standing
Federal judges face threats, insults, and political pressure—but continue to uphold the law.
From Watchdog to Lapdog?
The campaign to tame 60 Minutes and the broader war on independent journalism.
Follow The Money: A Slush Fund Presidency?
The anti-weaponization fund is only the most visible piece of a much larger financial puzzle
“Common Sense Take 2” : Change is up to Us
The "Exhausted Majority" will have to ‘turn the ship around
Gold Leaf and Gravestones
Arlington Cemetery deserves better than architectural narcissism.
America First? History Says Otherwise.
On our 250th Anniversary, remember who stood beside America at its birth.
Will “Nice” Still Play in Peoria?
A story of America’s political heart losing its bearings
