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A prolonged leadership void in the House could have negative repercussions for the military, increasing the likelihood of a government shutdown that would leave troops without pay and jeopardizing critical weapons support for Ukraine, defense experts say.

Reimagining India’s Global Opportunity With Atmanirbhar Bharat’s Leading Voices.

William A. Galston writes the weekly Politics & Ideas column in the Wall Street Journal. He holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he serves as a senior fellow. Before joining Brookings in January 2006, he was Saul Stern Professor and Acting Dean at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Lear...

The Florida governor and expected Republican presidential candidate had been criticized for calling the Russian invasion a ‘territorial dispute’

By the end of World War Two, nationalism had been thoroughly discredited. Critics charged that national self-interest had prevented democratic governments from cooperating to end the Great Depression, and that nationalist passions had led not just to war, but also to some of the worst crimes groups of human beings had ever perpetrated on others. In this defense of nationalism the renowned scholar of politics William Galston presents twelve arguments in defense of the importance of national ident...

With just a day to go before the 2022 midterm elections, and control of both houses of Congress and many important state-level offices on the line, momentum appears to be swinging in favor of the Republican Party. For several months in the middle of 2022, Democrats had allowed themselves to...

With just days to go before the 2022 midterm elections, and control of both houses of Congress and many important state-level offices on the line, momentum appears to be swinging in favor of the Republican Party. For several months in the middle of 2022, Democrats had allowed themselves to hope that this year they might…

Democrats are expected to lose control of the House and may struggle to hold the Senate

William Galston, an observer of contemporary American politics, is slated to open the Seminars at Steamboat series on Monday, July 11, with his take on the state of the country. His seminar topic — “Deeply...

The tempest surrounding Trump White House records has put an unusual amount of focus on a low-profile but powerful independent federal government agency: the National Archives.