Rahm Emanuel

3 weeks ago | phillytrib.com | Rahm Emanuel

Civilization, H.G. Wells once claimed, is a race between education and catastrophe. In the United States today, catastrophe has the upper hand. I remarked recently that for every student trying to figure out which pronouns might apply to them, there’s a whole class trying to figure out what pronouns actually are. That prompted some to suggest I was taking a swipe at woke culture. Well, yes and no.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Rahm Emanuel

While we argue about stuff that doesn’t matter, our schools are failing (washingtonpost.com) While we argue about stuff that doesn’t matter, our schools are failing By Rahm Emanuel 2025032511151400 Civilization, H.G. Wells once claimed, is a race between education and catastrophe. In the United States today, catastrophe has the upper hand.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Rahm Emanuel

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1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Rahm Emanuel

For decades, Americans have cited Michigan Republican Sen. Arthur Vandenberg's 1947 admonition that, while Washington may bicker over domestic conflicts, "partisan politics stops at the water's edge." His suggestion wasn't that elected officials always saw eye-to-eye on foreign policy - some were internationalists and others isolationists. But it was a reminder that our strategy overseas was moored less in self-interest than the principles of freedom, self-determination, and national sovereignty.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Rahm Emanuel

"The Honeymooners." "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet." "Leave It to Beaver."In campaign ads and rhetorical flourishes, Democrats are prone to conjuring fuzzy images of married couples sitting at their kitchen table struggling to cover their monthly bills. "Kitchen table" issues remain, at least in my party's mind, shorthand for middle-class economic struggles. In real life, however, tight family budgets aren't the only challenges folks discuss in the kitchen.