|
William S. Becker, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
And while we continue avoiding another stone age by exploring space and creating new technologies, we should respect and learn from nature.
Former President Trump will be back in a New York courtroom Monday, this time for the start of his first criminal trial in a matter involving a hush...
There is no shortage of crises from which to learn today, but three have reached existential importance: the loss of faith in democracies,...
America needs to step back and ask whether there is anything we can do to restore civility to civil society.
Reforming the Supreme Court should be top of the list for the next Congress's Contract with America.
There is trouble in rural America.
In their unanimous decision, the nine justices ruled that states don't have the authority to keep candidates for federal office off their election...
The U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t seem to care about its credibility any more.
For the oil and gas industry, foul air is the smell of money.
Age is not the most important issue in this election. The candidates' values, motives and deeper mental health matter.
What can Biden do to win back the votes of young Americans worried about global warming?
The implications of this case go deeper than Trump's eligibility to hold office. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a solemn oath means...
Democracy's enemies have told us what they would do. Democracy's defenders must respond.
Today, even Gordon Gekko could not credibly claim greed is good in the oil and gas sector.
We will see in the long primary election season that begins in Iowa today how much the American people care.
President Biden should promise to fill the roughly 4,000 appointments in government with talented young people who can help shape the future in which...
In the new year, we will have another chance to elect national, state and local leaders with the backbone to slow the stampede. Will we take it?
The Colorado Supreme Court's decision to disqualify Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot next year has set off an uproar that the decision is...
Donald Trump has woven the web. Voters have a big job ahead to sort it all out.
Think about it: A baby born in 1992, when countries began negotiating about global warming, turned 32 years old before agreements could even mention...
Is it necessary for every nation to have its own solar and wind manufacturing capability?
With everybody accusing everybody else of weaponizing government, we don't have to weaponize the Constitution.
There is no more important issue in next year's election than the defense of freedom here, in Ukraine, and wherever despots would kill it.
It would be ideal if all of society worked in concert for the good of everyone, but reality is much more complicated.
In 2000, America witnessed one of the strangest election outcomes in its history — the "hanging chads" election in which the winner was to be...
A weeklong hearing on a lawsuit seeking to bar former President Trump from the ballot in Colorado under the 14th Amendment is underway this morning in...
If we are to have equal justice in America, we must start with the premise that no one is too big to jail.
This is no way to run a business or a government. America's chief executive should make an issue of it and insist that Congress not take another break...
No international, national or local issue is more important than global warming. Voters and candidates must treat it that way.
Neither the federal government nor the American people are prepared for the many direct and knock-on impacts of global warming — the “storm” is...
The House is diverting significant resources away from its legitimate responsibilities. We can't allow it to use those resources to work for anyone's...
Our top leaders would be understandably reluctant to give up the positions they've achieved during decades of service. But mentoring the next...
May the wisdom and grace of God be with all of us in the coming presidential election.