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What great legislators have in common

Each of the great politicians and legislators I’ve known over the course of my career in Congress was very different. They were masters of the rules, or unassailably knowledgeable about a given issu

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Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 12:00 am

What climate change means for government

By Lee H. Hamilton

Looking back at 2018’s weather-related news, it seems clear that this was the year climate change became unavoidable. I don’t mean that the fires in California, coastal flooding in the Carol

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Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 12:00 am

A big disappointment in politics

By Lee H. Hamilton

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Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018 12:00 am

What does it mean to be an American?

By Lee H. Hamilton

Tell me: What does it actually mean to be an American? In the press of day-to-day events and amid the ongoing tumult of politics, we don’t think about this much. Yet it’s a crucial question, one t

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Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 12:00 am

What are political parties good for? Plenty, actually.

By Lee H. Hamilton

If you take a dim view of our political parties, you’re in sterling company. So did George Washington.In his famous Farewell Address, he warned us against “the baneful effects of the spirit

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Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018 12:00 am

A more perfect union

By Lee H. Hamilton

You know these words, but how often do you stop to think about them? “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,

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Thursday, June 14, 2018 12:00 am

We need more politics

By Lee H. Hamilton

Every so often, I jot down a list of the things that discourage me about our country. There’s the widespread disregard for our core values of tolerance and mutual respect, for instance. Our declinin

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Thursday, March 22, 2018 12:00 am

Where to start? Fix the budget process

By Lee H. Hamilton

You could choose any number of marquee dilemmas to illustrate how broken congressional politics has become. Guns, Russian interference, climate change – Americans want progress on all of them and ge

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Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018 12:00 am

Why’s there so much focus on the presidency?

By Lee H. Hamilton

Because we live in such tumultuous political times, it’s easy to believe that today’s intense public focus on the Trump presidency is something new – an obsession like none we’ve ever seen bef

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Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017 12:00 am

What to look for in 2018

By Lee H. Hamilton

This was an interesting year that’s just concluding, wasn’t it? And here’s the thing: I suspect 2018 will be just as intriguing.Let’s start with some good news. The economy had a good year in

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