Boyd Matheson

With a hug, a teacher disarms a shooter inside a Idaho school.

Rewriting the past is easy. Writing the future is hard. Take the challenge and write your letter to the readers of tomorrow in 2121.

What if everything we’ve been experiencing over the last year was really just the storm before the calm?

Boyd Matheson advises us to find someone with a different point of view, then have a socially distanced soda or lunch and learn to Think Again.

Faith and religious activity are not the only answer to what ails society, but they create valuable connections.

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Benjamin Franklin’s wit and wisdom shine nearly 250 years later.

Individuals across the globe are starving to be interconnected with something a little bigger and little greater than themselves.

‘We the people’ must ‘be the people’

Young people, grounded in founding principles, will have to lead the next upswing — to get away from the “I” and back to the “we.”

When we should be showing compassion, too many reacted to Wednesday’s news with hatred or contempt.

We should be celebrating differences and encouraging people to bring their diversity of faith — their whole selves — into the public square.

Washington knew, long before Abraham Lincoln, that the unity of the union was freedom’s last best hope on earth.

When discussing foreign relations, national security and America’s role in the world, the conversation tends to drift toward words like might, strength, weapons, sanctions and capability. What if that clearly narcissistic approach was making international matters worse?

It sounds like a set up for a joke, but last weekend the unlikely combination may have connected the dots for a solution to the crisis of contempt that is crippling the country.

America should rediscover the principled lessons of Ronald Reagan, ensuring the swiftest and surest path to progress

We get so caught up in our mad dash to fix something quickly that we forget sometimes the smart move is not to do something, but to stand there and think.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will says that the new administration can turn down the heat on American politics

Presidents of both political parties have increasingly governed by enacting major initiatives and priorities through executive orders. This is not what governing is supposed to look like in America.

These voters, which could determine the next several election cycles, want to hear policies and solutions centered in community, compassion, self-reliance and upward mobility.