Keith Peterson
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Key question: How deeply has Hegseth examined defense issues?Jan 08, 2025 4:00 am - If and when Pete Hegseth appears before his Senate inquisitors, he is sure to face questions about his views on women both in combat and in a hotel bar. He will be asked ...
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Reflections on a presidential cabinet that workedDec 17, 2024 4:00 am - As the drama of President-elect Trump’s cabinet picks unfolds, we might take a minute to appreciate the stability and the competence of the Biden cabinet. Trump supporter...
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Dealing with peace talks when ‘nobody knows nuthin’ ’Dec 10, 2024 4:00 am - A curious thing occurred a month ago. The Trump camp reported that the president-elect had had a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump allegedly as...
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Is power of the law still relevant in cabinet decisions?Dec 03, 2024 4:00 am - When I served overseas, I occasionally told the story to my foreign contacts of former Sen. John Tower, the first Republican U.S. senator elected from Texas since Reconst...
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Population decline and its implications for the futureNov 16, 2024 2:00 pm - This past August, I wrote a column about a 1974 Saturday Review issue that assembled a group of luminaries to forecast what America and the world would be like 50 years h...
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What to watch for as the dust begins to settleNov 10, 2024 4:00 am - In the spring of 2010, I was an observer at an editorial meeting at The Guardian newspaper in London just days after Britain’s general election. Neither the Conservatives...
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A candidacy worthy of hopeOct 26, 2024 4:00 am - If you have seen the video by Bruce Springsteen expressing his views on the presidential election you will remember that at the end, he said that he has only one vote and...
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The big issue neither candidate talks much about - health careOct 12, 2024 3:00 pm - This has been an unusual election in many ways, but one in particular is that health care has largely been shunted to the side by other issues such as inflation and immig...
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Energy, climate policy and the next administrationOct 08, 2024 4:00 am - One cannot speak about climate policy and energy policy separately. They are joined at the hip. In this election, however, there is a deep division between the two candid...
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The impact of abortion on the November electionSep 28, 2024 3:00 pm - When I was the chief editorial writer for this newspaper in the 1980s, we did not want to touch the issue of abortion if we could help it. The issue was divisive and emot...