by jpitney | Nov 17, 2020 | Congress, House of Representatives, Uncategorized
Dear House Speaker Pelosi, Minority Leader McCarthy, Chair Lofgren, Ranking Member Davis, Chair McGovern, and Ranking Member Cole: We write to encourage the House of Representatives to re-establish the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress in the...
by jpitney | Nov 17, 2020 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives, Uncategorized
Kevin Kosar at The Hill: For the past two years, the Modernization Committee pursued its work diligently. It held 16 congressional hearings and six virtual discussions, and listened to the complaints and advice from legislators, experts, and the private sector. Last...
by jpitney | Nov 15, 2020 | Journalism, Uncategorized
Elana Beiser/ at The Committee to Protect Journalists: Incremental progress toward reducing the murders of journalists worldwide is fragile and could be thwarted by legal appeals and lack of political leadership, CPJ found in its latest report on impunity in...
by jpitney | Nov 5, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility, Elections, Uncategorized
Yuval Levin at AEI: At the heart of our pervasive crisis of alienation are widespread failures of responsibility, deep-seated cultural divisions and a deadly dearth of solidarity. Such challenges can seem impossibly immense when we look at our country from the top...
by jpitney | Oct 26, 2020 | Journalism, Uncategorized
The Dreier Roundtable is pleased to announce an op-ed contest. Entries should be in the form of an op-ed article, of the kinds that appear in newspapers. The op-ed may concern any issue in public affairs, broadly defined. This site offers useful advice on how to...
