Lasting political change doesn’t come from winning elections but reshaping institutions. On Feb. 26, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, issued a stunning announcement. “I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages,” he wrote on X. “We are going to be writing every […]

President Donald Trump gave 13-year-old cancer survivor Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel the chance to become an honorary member of the Secret Service during his speech to Congress on Tuesday evening. Trump said in his remarks that the boy “truly loves our police” and has “always dreamed of becoming a police officer” despite his extensive health challenges. […]

A Democrat and Republican lawmaker went viral for a tense exchange as President Donald Trump entered to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, a New Mexico Democrat, stood with a sign reading “This Is NOT Normal” as Trump walked in. C-SPAN posted a video of the incident […]

I am assigned the role of being the dour critic of speeches and debates, but this time I can’t find a bad thing to say about Donald Trump’s speech last night.  Not one damn thing. It was quite literally the best speech before Congress ever, and that is saying […]

President Donald Trump’s remarks to the Joint Session of Congress last night were, at 1 hour and 40 minutes the longest presidential address to Congress in our country’s history, but they were not a traditional “State of the Union” address. Rather, the speech was a unique combination of truth telling, national reflection, soaring aspiration, and […]