Lee Hamilton
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The key to representative democracy? Persuasion.May 26, 2019 1:00 am - I am lucky enough these days to be in regular touch with young people - students - who are interested in public service. I find hope in their quality, energy, and motiva...
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What would make Congress better?Apr 25, 2019 1:00 am - A couple of weeks ago I was speaking to a group of students and decided to start with a point-blank question: Is Congress doing a good job? There were perhaps 100 people...
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Hamilton: Hamilton: How our national politics has changedApr 14, 2019 1:00 am - By Lee H. Hamilton I became active in politics in the late 1950s, got elected to Congress in 1964, and have remained engaged in one way or another every year since then....
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Political and policy skills are mergingApr 05, 2019 1:00 am - Here's a surprise: the skills that can be used to win in politics are increasingly the skills needed to produce good policy. I know. You look at the policy stalemates in...
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Accountability makes good governmentMar 14, 2019 1:00 am - As various House committees gear up for a season of investigations and hearings on President Donald Trump and his administration, a lot of people are worried that progre...
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American politics' great divideFeb 26, 2019 12:00 am - One of the more striking political developments of the last few years has been the partisan sorting of American voters. It used to be that both the Republican and Democr...
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What great legislators have in commonFeb 03, 2019 12:00 am - Each of the great politicians and legislators I've known over the course of my career in Congress was very different. They were masters of the rules, or unassailably kno...
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Practicing politics at a high levelJan 22, 2019 12:00 am - Over a lifetime in politics, I've met a lot of interesting, impressive politicians. But those I truly admired were men and women who were adept at the arts both of polit...
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What a changing climate means for governmentJan 04, 2019 12:00 am - Looking back at 2018's weather-related news, it seems clear that this was the year climate change became unavoidable. I don't mean that the fires in California, coastal ...
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What does it really mean to be patriotic?Dec 07, 2018 12:00 am - Patriotism has been on a lot of people's minds lately. French President Emanuel Macron recently criticized President Donald Trump and other world leaders for their "us v...