During her post-Super Tuesday address to supporters in Florida, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “We know we’ve got work to do, but that work is not going to make America great again. American never stopped being great. We have to make America whole.” The hard truth for all presidential candidates, including GOP front-runner Donald Trump, is …
“Democracy is the worst form of government,” Winston Churchill said, “except for all the others.” This divisive, surprising and raucous campaign season frequently reminds us of the wisdom of the great man’s observation. The gridlock and polarization plaguing our democracy predate this campaign, of course. For years now, the loudest, angriest and most insistently uncompromising …
What do the top two winners in the New Hampshire Republican primary have in common? Both Donald Trump and Gov. John Kasich have made a promise to, if elected, work with leaders from both parties in Congress to set goals and work on some of our nation’s most pressing problems, without delay. Their success in …
The promise of a new year is exciting – it’s a time to refocus, set new goals and address those long-overlooked, lingering problems of the year before. It is a time to begin again. With the presidential election this year, Americans should feel empowered. This is the year we can begin our nation’s politics again …
As America braces for another wave of holiday travel later this month, we have reason to be a little more optimistic about the future of our nation’s roads. Both houses of Congress recently passed the first multiyear surface transportation authorization bill in a decade, promising to give American business and American safety a green light for several years to …
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By some measures, America’s political parties are as deeply divided today as they have been in more than a century. Despite some internal fissures, each party has grown steadily more homogenous in recent decades. Most conservatives have left the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party, which once featured a sizeable nonconservative contingent in the Northeast, …
HOW ONE POLITICAL START-UP IS TRYING TO FIGHT GRIDLOCK Read More »
Imagine for a moment that you are a teacher on patrol during afternoon recess. As you scan the schoolyard, you see two tense boys beneath the monkey bars. One is holding his fists at chest level, a young fighter at the ready. The other stands rigidly with arms akimbo. He looks more defiant than timid, …
The co-chairmen of the bipartisan No Labels organization said Monday that Americans are hungry for government cooperation, praising the six White House hopefuls so far who have taken their problem-solver promise. “[We are] focused on Republicans, Democrats and independents of all stripes moving the dialogue away from animosity, anger and finger-pointing towards actually getting things …
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MANCHESTER — Six presidential candidates have taken the No Labels “Problem Solver Promise,” according to No Labels co-chairmen Jon Huntsman and Joe Lieberman, who were in Manchester on Monday to announce the six names to a gathering of 500 No Labels supporters at the Manchester Radisson. Huntsman, a former Utah governor, and Joe Lieberman, a …
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Six presidential hopefuls have found some common ground on the nation’s future, according to a bipartisan group created to bridge the divide between Republicans, Democrats and independents. No Labels, formed after the 2010 midterm elections, is asking candidates to embrace four broad goals related to job creation, the federal budget, energy …
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