When people work full time and still cannot meet basic needs, something in the economic covenant has weakened. Government cannot guarantee success, nor should it remove the responsibility of individuals to strive, learn and persevere. But public policy should not make advancement harder through reckless spending, inflation, excessive taxation or regulations that protect established interests while suffocating new enterprise.

Remove “I can’t” from your vocabulary. Believe in yourself first. Where you begin does not determine where you must remain. Dream big, take the chance and do not stifle or underestimate yourself. I came from welfare, served in the military, became a CEO and later a sports business owner. None of that happened because I waited for someone else to declare me ready.

In this exclusive interview in Baltimore last week with The Baltimore Sun and its “Front Page Authority” podcast, Clark reflects on his departure from ESPN, lessons learned from professional disappointment, the importance of relationships, and why he believes ownership — not simply employment — may define the next chapter of his remarkable career.

As owners of The Baltimore Sun, David and I created Front Page Authority to provide substantive, civil and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, policymakers, business leaders, innovators and community members whose ideas deserve more than a few minutes of airtime.

So, it won’t be a simple vote that decides Venezuela’s future. There will be fights, maybe even a civil war, just like we had in Iraq all those years ago. Every country has a military, and every country has politicians who want power.

Holding juveniles accountable for their crimes and offenses means that you teach them to take responsibility for their actions and accept the consequences of what they've done.

What does Trump have up his sleeve? That’s the thing with him, you never really know what his true motivations are. Could he simply be golfing? Could he also be negotiating?

Unfortunately, this tragedy, while certainly unavoidable, could have been mitigated. Kerr County's first emergency alert didn't occur until just hours before the flooding occurred.

"...And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions."

Because before anything else -- before politics, power or policy -- Biden is a man. A husband. A father. A grandfather. And like any man facing this kind of diagnosis, he is someone now staring down the hardest fight of his life.

The gallows at Dachau faced the crematoria. The final images many Jews saw before their necks were snapped were clouds of foul-smelling smoke generated by the burning bodies of their friends and fellow prisoners.

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

The Ku Klux Klan, created in 1865, was led by Nathan Bedford Forrest with the mission of terrorizing and terrifying Blacks from enjoying their unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The law of the jungle strangles the rule of law, i.e., the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Pulling funding alone won't cut it, though. We need deep, structural reform in these institutions. The moment their leadership stops facing

Every country in the world is shaking in its boots after President Trump’s chesty address with hand grenades thrown every five minutes.

All who were abducted will carry unseen mental scars with them forever.

And, really, it’s too bad. If the public observed the genuine attitudes and interactions among elected officials and other leaders, they mig