Civility in the Workplace

by | Sep 20, 2025 | Civility

Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., director of the Ronald Reagan Center on Civility and Democracy, writes at Fortune: Civility isn’t about avoiding disagreement. It’s about disagreeing well and keeping the difficult moments, whether in a work meeting or at the dinner table,...

Pocket Rescissions

by | Sep 19, 2025 | Budget, Congress, Presidency

Don Wolfensberger The issue of pocket rescissions may seem peripheral or even irrelevant, given the big picture backdrop of a government teetering on the brink this month. But it actually has major significance, since it raises new questions and possibilities over who...

Dreier and Dean to Speak at the Ath

by | Sep 18, 2025 | Dreier, Public Service

From the Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College: Thu, October 2, 2025 Dinner Program Public Service Then & Now: From Nixon to Trump David Dreier ’75 and John W. Dean III What does principled public service look like when the ground is shifting under your...

For Argument

by | Sep 16, 2025 | Civility, Congress, Debate

Yuval Levin at AEI: Most days, the outrage motivating progressives on Bluesky is about something conservatives on X haven’t even heard about, and vice versa. Politically active people are at war with caricatures of their opponents, but they are not forced to actually...

Putting Down the Phone

by | Sep 15, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress

Gabby Giffords and Jeff Flake at USAT: Kirk’s supporters are angry – we all are – but in this perilous moment, elected officials wield outsized influence on whether the justified anger at the assassin transforms into malice toward fellow Americans. At a moment when...

Tricky Self-Executing Rule

by | Sep 14, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives

Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: What the Rules Committee did on Monday of last week was to put out a special rule for consideration of the four scheduled matters — the energy-water appropriations bill and three disapproval resolutions of executive regulations...

Spencer Cox: Man of the Hour

by | Sep 13, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Utah

Last year, Governor Spencer Cox received the Dreier Roundtable Civility Award. Natasha Korecki, Matt Dixon, Allan Smith and Jonathan Allen at NBC: At a news conference in the days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah, Gov. Spencer Cox took to the podium to...