Five hopes for the new year |
New Year’s Day is a celebration of the hope and promise of a fresh start. In that spirit, we have identified five goals that we hope will be achieved in 2026. Some of the items on our 2026 list are repeats from 2025: Progress has been made, but the goal has not been fully obtained.
We are happy to report, however, that two goals from our 2025 list were achieved: border security and permanent tax reform. Hopefully, our leaders in the White House, Congress, and the states will turn more of our hopes into reality by this time next year.
The pace of killing appears to have slowed down, but easily more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians were killed this year alone in what has become the largest and worst conflict in Europe since 1945. President Donald Trump was unable to bring the war to an end on Day One of his second term in office, but he has overseen steady, if somewhat uneven, progress toward an........