Hey Y’all,
by General Colin Powell
Many years ago, after I had become a four-star general and, then, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Times of London wrote an article observing that if my parents had sailed to England rather than New York, “the most they could have dreamed of for their son in the military was to become a sergeant in one of the lesser British regiments.”
We’re getting late enough in 2016 that we can venture early guesses at what total 2015 immigration looked like. Now, we don’t quite have all the data we need, but we’ve got enough to…
From the 19th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the principal military advisor to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense
Colin,
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You know me. I’m the elementary school room parent, the person you call if your kid needs a ride home from school, the one who shows up in a crisis. I’m also someone who, with my wife of ten years, spent thousands of dollars on reproductive technologies that resulted in the two beautiful kids we have today, Olin and Djuna, rounding the corner to eight and three…
I woke up on Wednesday morning, about an hour before my alarm was set to go off, feeling an at-first familiar pain in my pelvic…
Whoever coined the phrase “pro-life” was a genius. They got to declare themselves the winner before the argument had even really begun, setting forth a political…
I am an American Conservative who happens to be black. American because I was born in the greatest country God ever created. Conservative because it is the ideology that turned my life around and I will defend it with all of my being. And black because it…
Photo by Femi Matti
Because when I was five, my kindergarten classmate told me I couldn’t be the princess in the game we were playing because black girls couldn’t be princesses. Because I…
October 26th will mark the one-year anniversary since President Obama authorized a military campaign plan to…
These past few days, all of us have tried to make sense of yet another senseless terrorist attack. I know that Americans are anxious and fearful, and we have reason to be. The threat is real. The need for action is urgent.
By Mireya Solís
Editor’s Note: The following brief was originally published on www.brookings.edu as…
There is an ongoing battle among the liberal intelligentsia over “economic anxiety.” The basic question is whether economic factors — loss of manufacturing jobs, decline in living standards, increase in insecurity — are a valid explanation…
Once again, there has been another mass shooting involving a gun that looks like an AR-15 (it’s technically a Sig Sauer MCX, which may or may not be an “AR-15”…
Continuing with my Twitter analysis of the debates, I streamed and analyzed tweets from the last two presidential debates and put together some visualizations comparing the results. I used BigQuery to analyze tweet data from the Cloud Natural Language API (sentiment, syntax) and the Twitter Streaming API (tweet text, hashtags, user location).
