Opinion

I was in Congress for 34 years. During that time, I attended scores, possibly hundreds of public events. They were held in all kinds of places, in nearly every circumstance that you can imagine. I can recall only one incident of potential violence. There were sometimes heated disagreements, but almost never did people reject the

Here’s something I’ll bet you didn’t know: Congress has no idea what’s happened to the funds it told the government to spend. It’s supposed to be in charge of the federal budget — appropriating money for parks and air-traffic control and public health and support for farmers and myriad other things — but as an

George Washington’s Farewell Address is one of the key documents of America’s founding era. It’s not as familiar as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and some other writings, but it was a clarion call for national unity when the United States was forming its identity. It’s also remarkably pertinent to our own time. As

Many states around the country [on Nov. 4 and before through early voting] will be holding municipal and in some cases, state elections. Whether that’s true for your state or not, I want to make a case for why turning out to vote, even in what might seem to be minor local elections, really matters.