Hudson Institute
Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute; author of Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law and A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign: An Insider's Account; former Senior Editor of Commentary magazine; senior adviser to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign
Donald Trump Divides the Republican Party Surrogates for Donald Trump claim he's no racist, but his attack on a federal judge with Mexican ancestors was the last straw for many Republicans. Some GOP Senators are refusing to back him, and one is calling for the convention in Cleveland to choose somebody else.
Does Government Secrecy Really Keep Americans Safer? The Obama Administration has cracked down on leakers of classified information, and on reporters who refuse to reveal their sources. Now an open-government group is fighting back by advertising for whistleblowers in Washington. The first of 11 planned billboards has gone up near the State Department.
A California soaking, but will it stick? Some parts of Southern California got more than five inches of rain this week, in a series of storm systems that hit the area one after the other.
Who are the political players in the LA teachers strike? Thousands of LA public school teachers are going to be back out on the picket lines for a second day. They walked off the job Monday after failing to reach a contract agreement with the LA Unified School District, despite months of negotiations.