Tag: Victor Hugo
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In Notre Dame’s rise from the ashes, a message for Americans | Vince Bzdek
Our country feels like it is at an inflection point. Trust in our basic civic institutions is at historic lows. Only 22% of U.S. adults say they trust the federal government to do the right thing, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. Around 7 in 10 Americans have an unfavorable view…
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Saplings of freedom planted in Afghanistan may be hard to completely uproot | Vince Bzdek
The United States, it appears this week, spent 20 years, a trillion dollars and the lives of over 2,300 of its soldiers, including 38 Coloradans, in a lost cause. With extraordinary swiftness, the Taliban have retaken Afghanistan in the last month now that the U.S. has pulled out most of our remaining troops. Our efforts…