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Egypt is sliding into chaos, with hundreds dead from the latest clash between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the military leadership. Some say the country, the largest Arab nation, could descend into civil war. Will the U.S. stand by as it has in Syria, and watch the carnage mount? …

President Obama is on the campaign trail to sell his economic program directly to voters—over the head of a reluctant congress. He says it’s all about jobs but it’s just politics as usual. The economic recovery has been painfully slow. Through last fall, growth was only 2.1 percent and has …

When Hollywood celebrities “Demand Zero,” President Obama applauds. Thursday in Berlin, he announced his intent to march further along “The Road to Zero”—toward a world without nuclear weapons. Movie stars aren’t expected to understand the intricacies of nuclear weapons policy, but the commander-in-chief should know better than to follow this …

Memorial Day calls forth ghosts. The surviving members of our greatest generation who fought World War II will soon join their ranks. Sixteen million American men and women served in the armed forces during that war. Today, only an estimated 1.2 million are still living and they are dying at …

Republicans are engaging in what has become their perennial post-election pastime: blaming their electoral defeats on social issues. If the party doesn’t moderate on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, Republican analysts endlessly advise, it will risk alienating voters and losing the future. I agree that substantive changes need to …

Trying to head off a stampede to the exits, the White House insists that Chuck Hagel — his disastrous Senate hearing notwithstanding — has the votes to become defense secretary. Maybe, but Hagel’s stumbling and incoherent statements should worry President Obama. Does the president really want someone who has so …

When it comes to former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of Defense, the left and right both have mixed emotions. As controversial as President Obama’s decision to tap Hagel may be, it’s critical our elected officials take all prejudice and bias out of the equation when it comes …

One of the last vestiges of broad-based bipartisan agreement in American politics is the belief that foreign money should not influence U.S. political leaders and their decisions. The Supreme Court hasunanimouslyupheld the ban on foreign political money, and President Barack Obama and Republicans have echoed similar themes. We now know …

This past week I traveled a lot; from Los Angeles, to New York and finally DC to honor our troops for a Flag Day concert.Ironically, my journey from LA to DC had a fascinating link I would have never predicted; connecting my very first movie experience to the freedoms we …

What good is a right if you don’t know you have it? What if you know about your right but are blocked from exercising it? That’s the situation for millions of public workers. They have a constitutional right not to pay dues to government labor unions, yet unions are furiously …