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Should Ukraine Be Allowed to Join NATO? No, The Alliance is Supposed to Enhance – not Sacrifice – U.S. Security
The promise to go to war should be reserved for the most important interests – ones that are vital, even existential. Ukraine is not one.
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Should America Continue to Accept Asylum Seekers? Yes.
America has always been a land of refuge and will continue to be so. That is the easy part of any debate about refugee and asylum issues.
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Should America Continue to Accept Asylum Seekers? No.
Today, the U.S. has needlessly made the administration of providing refugee protection confusing by creating two separate paths and processes: An alien overseas applies for refugee protection, while an alien at our border or inside the U.S. applies for asylum.
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Hospitalizing the Homeless: For those with serious mental illness, it is compassionate to get them off the streets
We must safeguard our civil liberties, but we also must not forget abut the right of an ill person who relies on society’s conscience and protection to survive a treatable illness.
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Hospitalizing the Homeless: Without affordable housing and services, the mentally ill will end up back on the streets
Mayor Adams should promote solutions that center on people, focus on connecting short-term interventions to long-term housing solutions, and promote pathways to economic mobility.
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Don’t Repeal the Law That Created the Internet
Without Section 230, as one leading appellate judge (a Republican appointee) put it, websites would “face death by ten thousand duck-bites.”
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Section 230 is the counter-productive U.S. policy and law that makes Big-Tech unaccountable.
As the Internet evolves, so must the law and policy regarding it.
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Back to the Future for Defense
Republicans ought to take a page from the Reagan playbook and insist that we can defeat inflation and control federal spending without weakening our military.
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After Failing Five Straight Audits, the Pentagon Should Not Get a Funding Boost
You don’t need to be a budget hawk to recognize it is past time to end budget increases for the Department of Defense and impose some fiscal discipline on the agency.
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Every American Should Serve for a Year
It’s time to rethink the path to success for our nation’s youth and rebuild trust along the way by prioritizing opportunities that bring people from different backgrounds together through a shared goal and common purpose.
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The False Promise of Universal National Service
It is magical thinking that the state can round up 18-year-olds, march them, like Mao’s Red Guards, across America, and turn them into moral, caring, selfless adults committed to national unity and other liberal verities.
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Should Ukraine Be Allowed to Join NATO? Yes, Ukraine is Fighting for its Freedom — and Ours
Ukraine’s argument is essentially that because Russia has never attacked a NATO country, peace for Europe requires Ukraine’s NATO accession. It’s a strong argument.