The ceasefire in the Iran War was arranged partly through maneuvers rooted in past American diplomatic efforts. One involved Pakistan as a conduit to Tehran and Beijing. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled a well-trod path, as Henry Kissinger did in 1971, using Pakistan as a lever to ...

The idea that on April 30th we will hold our 16th Annual Kump Education Research Seminars is a great delight to the old researcher in me. We started this seminar tradition when I was teaching in the Education Department at Davis & Elkins College, and we invited student teachers from ...

If you’re reading this today, I am in George Town, the capital city of the Cayman Islands in the middle of my third Royal Caribbean cruise.  I’m writing this column before shipping off from Port Canaveral in Florida along the Space Coast, a short drive away from the launchpad where the ...

National confidence, unfortunately, is in short supply these days. In this season of springtime renewal, Americans would do well to look up — literally. Artemis II, NASA’s first meaningful manned space mission in over a half-century, has taken the nation by storm this month. In so doing, it ...

Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025? The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump’s ceasefire announcement and, hours ...

Today, due to Baby Boomer retirements and more workplace options, the number of new workers has risen. Inexperienced employees have a huge impact on an organization. This lack of experience can show up in a number of places: from customer service to processes that need to be followed to ...