Campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris in a battleground state, Republican Liz Cheney framed the stakes of the 2024 election like this.  Our own security and our own freedom require that we have a president who understands America has to lead and that our strength comes from o

The budget pamphlet in my mailbox was titled “Financial Realities.”  I laughed.  As a person once responsible for a  $200 million budget, I know financial realities are imaginary.  Budgets are guestimates of the future based on the unlikely assumption that history will repeat

The Brexit vote takes England a step away from globalization and may cause other nations to look longingly at the good old days of fixed borders and national sovereignty.  In England’s case, that longing may destroy the United Kingdom, because Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales m