American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of revenge.

We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action.

Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.

Here's the problem - under both Obama and Trump, American military forces and assistance have provided just enough support to anti-Assad forces to keep the resistance going, but never enough help to actually dislodge Assad from power.