After reviewing the ills that beset America, from a weak economy to a misguided energy policy, from failing schools to costly health care, Barack Obama focused on the nation’s mood. ‘Less measurable, but no less profound,’ the new President suggested …
It was August, 1993 and President Clinton was working the Democratic majority in Congress to gather the votes for his first budget plan. For a President trying to change the direction of federal policy, as he was after 12 years …
‘What then is the American, this new man?’ J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur asked in his Letters to an American Farmer in 1782 before describing the distinctly American character that was emerging on the eastern seaboard of a new …
In mid-April, Rep. Sue Myrick, a soft-spoken Republican from Charlotte, North Carolina, sought to shake her nation from its slumbers, announcing a 10-point ‘Wake Up America’ agenda ‘to alert, and educate, Americans to terrorist threats here at home posed by …
Not long ago, the President of one of America’s flagship universities was sitting with its top government affairs staffer, musing, for a change, about something other than fundraising and faculty recruitment. ‘Is it possible,’ asked the President, a liberal of …
