The Rule of Law Strict adherence to the Rule of Law has been AmericaÔÇÖs differentiator. ItÔÇÖs what has made America great. ItÔÇÖs the reason why American democracy is historyÔÇÖs most durable and why America has the worldÔÇÖs free-est press and most successful economy. ...
Let’s Talk Turkey The country, not the bird. Change happens. In Turkey, change has been a slow-motion slide into dictatorship. Turkey used to be the shining example of an Islamic republic with a multi-decade history of secular democracy. No more. Turkey’s last sixteen years provide...
What is Terrorism? Words matter … in their innuendos as well as in their dictionary definitions. The words uttered by world leaders matter more than others. Directly after the Boston Marathon attack by two Muslim brothers on April 15, 2013, President Obama called it a “senseless...
The First Amendment, a Free Press and Journalism What is the obverse of a “free press”? We’ve once again reached a point in history where that question has become topical because America’s media has taken steps on-the-way to becoming an “unfree press.” Why is...
Does Truth Matter? Some believe the beginnings can be traced to Bill Clinton when he said “I did not have sex with that woman.” Before our President gave that historical denial, we all knew that the meaning of fellatio was oral sex. The word...
The Times They are A-Changin “Most of us assume that the future will more or less resemble the present, but this is not necessarily so. In a long and eventful life, I have witnessed many periods of what I call radical disequilibrium. We are...
