Regarding the Alaska summit, potentially important mixed symbolic history is involved. 

Self-destructive spending habits are more likely to impact Americans’ daily lives than a foreign adversary. Cutting missions abroad is the first step toward restoring fiscal sanity and ensuring the solvency of America’s defense strategy.

For decades, the world remained largely silent. Only recently has the United Nations begun to acknowledge the massacre for what it was: a crime against humanity, and, in the words of former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Iran, amounted to genocide.

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, far too many are still paying the price for exposure to Agent Orange.

Japan has made a commitment to provide $550 billion in new funding to the United States in the form of investment, loans and loan guarantees.

I experienced true religious freedom for the first time in my life in this country, of which I am now a proud, grateful citizen — and that’s why I am shocked by the ways that my government is now treating my Iranian congregants, who have been detained by masked officers, separated from their families and threatened with deportation to a country that would kill them for their Christian faith.

Right now, in 15 states and Washington, D.C., independent voters — including hundreds of thousands of veterans — are shut out of primary elections. The bipartisan Let America Vote Act (LAVA) bill would ensure that all federal primaries are open to independent voters.

Quality control measures need to evolve as quickly as next-gen technology to uphold the defense industry.

The tech sector’s promises of a new, revolutionary era of defense made possible by AI and other technologies are almost certainly overstated. If past practice tells us anything, it is that new, complex high-tech weapons will not save us.

The BBB prioritizes immigration, deportation and tax cuts for the wealthy while cutting Medicaid and food stamp programs, and with no regard to fiscal responsibility. Is that what Americans really want?