August 2021

There is a common misconception that military veterans can seamlessly rejoin society following their military service – as if they can simply flick a switch and put their service behind them. But that is clearly not the case.

A crisis demands an all-hands-on deck approach, but communicating a crisis is best left to a single, consistent, credible individual.

The decision by President Biden to withdraw from our longest war in Afghanistan was the correct and proper one because, tragically, we never learned from our history in Vietnam.

Rather than continue to tweak how they evaluate applicants to fit the changes brought on by COVID-19, colleges need to remake the application itself to spotlight what really matters once students get to campus.

When it came to those moments when he needed someone intimate yet independent enough to speak to him in blunt, honest terms… he had no one.

As we put the war in Afghanistan behind us, a central question left hanging in the air is whether the American people any longer have the will to defend the international order established under our watch.

To the extent mistakes were made – and they were – that doesn’t bear on service and sacrifice of those who were boots on the ground.

False beliefs act as a catalyst pushing the population toward the behavior after which it can be maintained.

In short, a top-down government approach for addressing issues related to COVID isn’t appealing to “Trump-to-Biden” voters.