Putin vs. Next Gen
Dear President Putin,
As someone who, at the age of eighteen, patriotically turned in his draft card at the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War, let me tell you that you have just made a colossal blunder by trying to force thousands of young Russian men to fight in Ukraine. Believe me: a quarter of a million young Russians dodging the draft by crossing the border is just the beginning. Protests are spreading from St Petersburg to Dagestan.
Don’t Cancel the Debates – Fix Them.
As a nation, we are all recovering from the disaster that was the first presidential ‘debate.’ Despite his best effort, moderator Chris Wallace was steamrolled by waves of insults, acrimony, and incomprehensible cross-talk. Now Facebook is filled with people calling on future debates to be canceled. We think the answer is to fix the debates, not to cancel them.