Above the Fray & Beneath the Surface
2016 certainly did not end the way I thought it would, but I think a lot of what I am expecting is still on the way. In fact, it doesn't feel like it's over yet (in a good way). As strange as it sounds, I'm thinking of 2016 right now as a rough draft that with a few edits can still turn out to have been a pretty good year. So I enter 2017 hopeful, expectant, and unfazed by some temporary setbacks. Happy 2017 to all of you!
The events of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, remain deeply etched in the collective American consciousness. While it impacted people of all ages, it remains, for those of my generation, the day our worl
President Biden offered his remarks yesterday on the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. Over the course of the first few minutes, he blamed President Trump, then said that he stood by his decision to wi
I don’t write much on foreign policy. Despite all its intricacies, my views on foreign policy are pretty simplistic. Ultimately, they boil down to four basic understandings. First, I think that people