Openness & Cohesion

This week, two immigration decisions from the Supreme Court are in the headlines. There’s a third we shouldn’t miss.

In WSJ today: Hegseth announces a review of U.S. forces in Europe and threatens NATO cuts.

In the Economist today: “Scammers are preying on America’s illegal immigrants.”

“This is a cheap shot.”

On Friday, ICE was in my neighborhood.

In February, just as the second Trump Administration was kicking off, I watched Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s State of the State address . It already seems like years have passed, but even in its first month the administration in Washington had started to turn America’s democracy inside out, and watching the…

This week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of senior military leaders to a meeting in Quantico so he could lecture them about setting and meeting higher standards .