Lanny Davis Purple Nation Weekly

by Lanny Davis – 6/24/16 While we in Washington are fixated on the upcoming presidential election, another critical election has just begun: the race for the United Nations secretary-general. Given that the U.S. is currently the largest funder of the U.N., providing 22 percent of the organization’s budget, this election deserves our attention. The U.N. […]

by Lanny Davis – 6/16/16 Throughout American history, there are pivotal moments where a leader of one of the two major parties rises up to put conscience and moral principles over party loyalty. One such moment for the Republican Party occurred on June 1, 1950. Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, the only woman in the […]

by Lanny Davis – 6/1/16 With all the hours of punditry and tens of thousands of words written about Hillary Clinton’s emails by the political press corps, it is amazing that the whole episode can be boiled down to five undisputed facts. First, the former secretary of State did nothing illegal by having a private […]