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America’s Energy Picture – Twenty-first Century Prospects

Spencer Abraham is Chairman and CEO of the Abraham Group, and a former U.S. Secretary of Energy and U.S. Senator from Michigan. Branko Terzić is Managing Director of Berkeley Research Group LLC and a former Commissioner on the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Wisconsin Public Service Commission.

Why I Believe in America

Muhtar Kent is Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company. You may follow him on Twitter @MuhtarKent VENTURING an opinion about the United States can be tricky under the best of circumstances, given that almost everyone has an opinion on the country and its future. Expressing an optimistic view of America is still more challenging—particularly on […]

Pluralism and Polarization – The Quest for a More Perfect Union

Jonathan A. Greenblatt is National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, having previously served in the White House as Special Assistant to President Obama and Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. You may follow him on Twitter @JGreenblattADL

The Strength of U.S. Federal Democracy

Roger Myerson is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and a winner of the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Memo for the Next President – Building on the Affordable Care Act’s Successes

Nancy-Ann DeParle is a Founding Partner of Consonance Capital Partners, a private equity fund focused exclusively on the U.S. health care industry. She previously served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy to President Obama from 2011–2013, and Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform from 2009–2011. This article is based on a lecture presented to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Policy Grand Rounds on September 17th, 2015.

Building Back New Orleans -Not as it Once Was, but Like it Always Should Have Been

Mitchell J. Landrieu is the 61st Mayor of New Orleans, having previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana and a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. You may follow him on Twitter @MayorLandrieu TEN years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and in the blink of an eye everything changed. Across the Gulf Coast, […]

The Great American Partisan Divide – The Formation and the Cure

Allan Katz is Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Portugal. He is the founder of the American Public Square. Stephen Larson assisted in researching and editing this article