June 2022

The “business as usual” mindset toward energy has historically undermined its strategic importance.

Reducing our negative biases towards undocumented immigrants is possible. It starts with holding the media and politicians accountable for misleading information about undocumented immigrants and acknowledging that undocumented immigrants who seek asylum are here legally.

The recently announced bipartisan gun safety bill is a welcome step in the right direction. Yet it could use the playbook on airport security to make it even more effective.

The real danger of men like Trump and Joe McCarthy is that the facts don’t seem to matter at all. They believe the end justifies the means and if some people lose their lives or their careers or their mental health along the way, so what?

It almost goes without saying that our nation is very polarized on how we should treat gun ownership. Despite where you personally land on the debate, it is not the goal of this article to give more credence to one side or the other.

Congress needs to dive in and throw children a life jacket. They must help families across this country by extending child nutrition waivers through June 2023.

As long as misperceptions about gun violence persist, solutions will remain elusive, killings will continue, and the prejudices that motivate so many of these crimes will only harden.

It’s 8.6 versus January 6. Two stories are competing for our attention. Both are important, and related. One spares no victims and threatens our wallets, the other – for those paying attention – is exposing an unprecedented attack on our system of government.

It is true that we have made significant process in reducing severe illness and death from COVID-19, but is the emergency phase of the pandemic really over?

Since the day he took office, President Biden and Congressional Democrats have undermined our energy and cyber independence, appointing agency heads and enacting executive orders designed to undermine America’s businesses.