The Ripon Forum
Volume 53, No. 6
November 2019
by LOU ZICKAR
To mark the 30-year anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, this edition of the Ripon Forum not only looks back at this historic event, but examines the state of democracy around the world today.
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by GREG WALDEN
We cannot allow the progress made to turn into complacency. That’s why we have highlighted 12 bills that Congress should consider to further our efforts to combat the epidemic of substance use disorder.
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by LINDSEY BURKE
An update on the progress of the school voucher program in Washington, DC fifteen years after it was established.
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by PETER KELLNER
Whether Britain chooses to throw in its lot with the EU, US, neither, or both, it is likely to struggle unless it recognises the connections, obligations, and compromises that are needed to solve today’s big problems.
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A conversation with former Director of National Intelligence and U.S. Ambassador to Germany Dan Coats about the historic events of November 1989 and the state of world affairs today.
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by MICHAEL ABRAMOWITZ & ARCH PUDDINGTON
To counter freedom’s retreat, we must first recognize that modern authoritarianism is not a passing phenomenon.
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by DANIEL TWINING
The greatest dangers to America emanate from the ideologically driven strategies of Russia and China to weaken our democracy.
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by KLAUS SCHROEDER
Three decades after the Berlin Wall came down, Germans in the East and West have remained strangers to each other in many respects.
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by JEFFREY ENGEL
George H.W. Bush did more than anyone else to give peace the calm and quiet it needed to grow.
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by MATTHEW F. FERRARO
In a series of speeches across the country, Mac Thornberry is arguing that our quality of life is better thanks in no small measure to the American-led, seven-decades-old international system.
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