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The stealth threat of a new constitutional convention

Advocates of holding a new constitutional convention have filed a lawsuit in Texas, asking a federal court to order a constitutional convention to be held in Kansas by January 31, 2023. A U.S. representative has introduced legislation to provide for a convention. The bill will not move forward ...

Truth has become the victim of political campaigns

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high,” a near perfect description of the heart of summer. The words are the opening lines of the famous song from the opera “Porgy and Bess” written by George Gershwin nearly a century ago. And in the Granite ...

Russia can still be defeated, but time is running out

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger caused a stir in May when he asserted that, to achieve peace, Kyiv must cede land to Moscow. While realpolitik may one day force Ukraine to consider difficult tradeoffs, we should not assume that Vladimir Putin initiated this war simply to redraw ...

Harding, Wilson and the perils of expertise

The fallibility of expertise is obvious when one considers that for nearly a century historians have considered Woodrow Wilson among the near-great presidents and Warren Harding among the worst. (Harding died 99 years ago this month, and Wilson six months later.) In 1921, Harding gave the ...

The new geopolitics of the Middle East

In his first trip to the Middle East as president in July, Joe Biden arrived in Israel to provide an opportunity for communications between countries and to support a more stable region. In this four-day trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, Biden strengthened relations with old allies and brought ...