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The Karsh Institute’s 2025 Reading List
Throughout 2025, the Karsh Institute convened authors of notable new books—leaders across policy, history, law, and journalism—for conversations that examined the forces shaping democracy today. Their work expands our understanding of civic life, strengthens our grasp of institutional resilience, and illuminates the stories and ideas that bind communities together.
The Golden Dome's Blind Spot
Pictured is an aerial view of the Pentagon on May 15, 2023 (DoD Photo) By Will Hurd, Writer. The Trump administration's proposed "Golden Dome" missile defense initiative could revolutionize homeland defense. But the debate around it is overlooking a critical point. The most immediate threats to the nation will come not from enemy missiles that are launched into space and then arc down toward us.
The Golden Dome’s Blind Spot
Will Hurd Defense Opinion October 13, 2025 The most immediate threats to the nation will come not from enemy missiles that are launched into space and then arc down toward us. They will come from the “underlayer” Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles
Opinion | I Was on the Board of OpenAI. Here’s How to Stop the Tech Apocalypse. Original
This is also why the late November 2023 governance debacle at OpenAI was troubling. (I stepped down from the board on June 1, 2023, in order to pursue the Republican nomination for president.) In the span of just five days, four members of the six-person board of directors removed their board chair and fired their CEO and fellow board member Sam Altman. After over 90 percent of the rest of the employees threatened to quit, the board ultimately reinstated Altman.
Opinion | Should 4 People Be Able to Control the Equivalent of a Nuke?
At one point in my two years on the board of OpenAI, I experienced something that I had experienced only once in my over two decades of working in national security: I was freaked out by a briefing. I saw for the first time what was going to eventually be known as GPT4 and the power of the tool was clear: This signified just the first step in the process to achieve artificial general intelligence.
Opinion | Should 4 People Be Able to Control the Equivalent of a Nuke?
At one point in my two years on the board of OpenAI, I experienced something that I had experienced only once in my over two decades of working in national security: I was freaked out by a briefing. I saw for the first time what was going to eventually be known as GPT4 and the power of the tool was clear: This signified just the first step in the process to achieve artificial general intelligence.
Opinion | Nikki Haley Can Beat Donald Trump
Donald Trump is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, but his selection isn’t inevitable. To beat him once and for all, we can’t continue to propagate three fallacies: First, that someone who hasn’t yet declared can swoop in to defeat Mr. Trump. Running for president is a complicated undertaking.
News, Bio, Facts (Updated on Mon, Sep 25 2023)
Presidential Hopeful Will Hurd Challenges Trump Loyalty in GOP Race: "I Will Not Sign a Blood Oath to Donald Trump" Will Hurd, a Former CIA operative who is running for president, has expressed his displeasure at being excluded from the first debate.
The 2024 Executive Power Survey - Enforcement Independence - The New York Times
2024 Executive Power Survey Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Law Enforcement Independence Especially since Watergate, there has been an institutional norm of independence from White House control at the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service. The idea is that while a president can set broad policies, he or she should not get involved in specific criminal cases or auditing decisions except in rare situations that would affect foreign policy.
The 2024 Executive Power Survey - Signing Statements
Roxana Sanchez has slipped and fallen on freshly mopped floors on the job. She’s gone home with bruises. She’s scrubbed away feces and blood. She has two bulging disks in her back, arthritis in her wrist and chronic neck pain, problems she attributes to working long days cleaning houses for more than a decade.
The 2024 Executive Power Survey - Emergency Powers Reform
An Arizona Border Patrol sector is facing overwhelming numbers, with new images showing the overcrowding in facilities, as agents have been green-lit to release migrants on the streets to cope with the pressure. Photos in Ajo, Arizona, taken by retired ICE Field Office Director John Fabbricatore, show illegal migrants being detained in an outdoor holding facility in the Tucson sector.
The 2024 Executive Power Survey - Press Freedoms
The presidential candidate of Taiwan’s largest opposition party plans to push the Biden administration to clarify its commitment to defending his country when he visits the US over the coming week. “We are allied nations. We stand together,” Hou Yu-ih, of the Kuomintang, told the Financial Times in his first interview with international media since receiving the KMT’s nomination in May.
Solving the US migrant crisis is utterly do-able — here’s how it gets done Original
The border hasn’t been secured for the last 20 years because too many politicians are lying to you about how complex this issue is. We have leaders like Vice President Kamala Harris, the “border czar,” who thinks eating lunch at an El Paso taqueria counts as visiting the border, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who thinks a tidal wave of 5.5 million people coming into our country illegally is “operational control” of the border.
Los republicanos que podrían calificar para el primer debate presidencial
Al menos siete candidatos parecen haber pasado el corte hasta ahora para el primer debate presidencial republicano sobre 23 de agosto. Los últimos datos de encuestas y recaudación de fondos muestran que el campo de juego se está reduciendo para el debate presidencial republicano programado para finales de este mes. Aunque el expresidente Donald J.
HURD: Securing America's Northern Border is a Matter of National Security
As the chaos at our Southern border dominates headlines, it is easy to overlook the mounting vulnerabilities along our Northern border, despite the distance that separates them. New Hampshire, situated over 2,000 miles away from border towns like El Paso, Texas, may seem insulated from the border crisis, but that assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. Recent statistics paint a disturbing picture that demands our attention.
Will Robots Take My Job? | 65% of U.S. Adults Say They Are Concerned That AI Could Lead To Job Losses
Photo: The Norwegian company 1X Technologies expects to launch its Neo robot (left) in 2023. The American robotics company Figure is working on its Figure 01 humanoid robot (right) – 1X Technologies/Figure Artificial Intelligence and robotics are rapidly evolving industries and technologies, raising the question: “Will robots take my job?” I’ve explored this question for almost a decade.
Are the BRICS Trying to Form a One World Currency? | Why You Should Care About a Growing Alliance Focused on De-dollarization
The United States of America has built a global order following World War II that has benefitted America because every other country on Earth wanted to participate in it. This international order has led to America becoming the sole global superpower. It has enabled the economic success we call the American Dream to be the envy of the world. Unfortunately, this world order that has been beneficial to every American is now unraveling. One sign of this is the discussion around a one world currency.
A Firearm-Owning Republican’s Solutions for Gun Violence
For six years, I had the honor of representing Uvalde, Texas, in Congress—a close-knit community that, one year ago, was forever scarred by unthinkable violence and engulfed by pain and grief. That day, 19 innocent children and two dedicated teachers were taken from us, and their families were struck by tragedy.
Are Climate Change Prevention & U.S. Energy Independence Mutually Exclusive?
Photo: Liquified Natural Gas export facility near Houston, Texas – Freeport LNG The world needs to produce more electricity to meet energy consumption needs AND reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We know what we need to do: stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, take some of the carbon emissions that are already in the atmosphere out, and generate at least 2 times more electricity by 2050. We can do all three — at the same time.
The New Cold War: China vs. U.S. | A Candid Conversation with Will Hurd
In today’s rapidly changing geopolitical landscape, understanding the intricacies of global politics is more important than ever. This exclusive excerpt is from an interview conducted at the recent Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TCRA) event in Fort Worth, Texas on March 24, 2023. TSCRA Vice President Carl Ray Polk sits down with me to discuss a topic that has captured the attention of the world – the new cold war with China.
5 Essential Leadership Principles for Success in Everything
Life Lessons I Learned from My Mom To Become A Better Leader Photo: My sister, brother, and I (seated) celebrating with my mom. I’ve always been and will always be a momma’s boy. Mary Alice Hurd wore many hats — a department store buyer, master seamstress, puppet maker, cosmetologist, beauty supply owner, and beauty school director. But her favorite role was being a mom, not just to her three wild kids, but to everyone she met.
Time May Change Me
As Jonah continues his search for Spanish gold, Sarah Isgur assumes control of the Remnant once again for some predictably eclectic conversation. She’s joined by former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, who’s also a security expert and national park enthusiast. After briefly discussing the ravages of age, they turn to America’s immense beauty, the terrors of AI, the challenges of immigration reform, and everything in between. Are we in a new Cold War? Could Will be preparing for a shocking announcement?
Commentary: Alamo site to honor Latimore’s reverence for shrine, civil rights
As the Alamo participates Monday in the Martin Luther King Jr. march in San Antonio, our nation’s largest, we will be walking in memory of Latimore. Latimore died on July 26. He was 46. His last public event at the Alamo was a little more than a month earlier, during which, despite his illness, he graciously served as the keynote speaker at our Juneteenth celebration.
Opinion | The Tragedy of Kevin McCarthy
It’s hard not to see the predicament of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a tragedy. A man who was heralded 15 years ago as a new brand of conservative leader, who set records for fundraising, and who helped get candidates elected all over the country now has had to suffer through successive failures to become speaker of the House.
How Many National Parks Are There? | Depends How You Ask
Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park 8 min read When it comes to the question of how many national parks there are in the US, the answer isn't as straightforward as you might imagine. It all depends on what you mean by "national park." In this blog, we'll dive into the different definitions and explain why the answer isn't so simple. There are a few different ways you could answer the question of how many national parks there are in the US.
The One Thing to Do If You Don't Love Your Choices on Election Day
The good news: turnout in this 2022 election is projected to be higher than usual for a midterm election. People are voting even though midterm elections have historically low participation compared to presidential cycles. Our last midterms in 2018 had the highest voter turnout for a non-presidential contest in over one hundred years. A total of 49% of eligible voters voted in 2018 (more than 122 million people), compared to just 36% of eligible voters in 2014.
The One Thing President Biden is Getting Consistently Wrong About Inflation
If you had worked hard to save $200,000 in your 401k and it was invested in NASDAQ on the day Joe Biden became president in 2021, two weeks prior to the 2022 mid-term elections you would have had only around $158,000. This ramification of inflation is one of the main reasons Democrats' chances of holding congress are sinking fast, even with unemployment matching its lowest point since 1969.
The One Thing President Biden is Getting Consistently Wrong About Inflation | … And the 3 Key Things He Should Be Doing that He Isn’t
Photo by DALL-E 3 min read If you had worked hard to save $200,000 in your 401k and it was invested in NASDAQ on the day Joe Biden became president in 2021, two weeks prior to the 2022 mid-term elections you would have had only around $158,000. This ramification of inflation is one of the main reasons Democrats' chances of holding congress are sinking fast, even with unemployment matching its lowest point since 1969.
Leadership and 9/11 | What we can learn from how Americans felt after tragedy
What we can learn from how Americans felt after tragedy Photo by DALL-E Two days after the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, an attack that killed 2,977 Americans and injured thousands more, The Pew Research Center conducted their first poll on how 9/11 was impacting American psyche and culture. They have continued polling on this topic for twenty-one years.
Courageous Leadership Can Make Washington Work
Courageous Leadership Can Make Washington Work Joe Lieberman and Will Hurd each have authored new books that make the case for how Washington can work better. They also apply their beliefs to the international arena in this Catalyst conversation. Read Full Article »
Congress needs to pass the CHIPS for America Act Original
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The Open Internet is Over | Confronting Reality in Cyberspace
The author generated this image with DALL-E, OpenAI's transformer language model. The technological change we have seen in the last forty years has been astonishing. Consider the Internet: In the 1980s to download a 5 MB file we had to get the approval of everyone in the house to use a 2400 Baud modem, because it would tie up the landline for 5 hours.
Founding Fathers Right in their Time, Wrong Today -- Why You Should Care About an Entangling Alliance with Taiwan
When George Washington wrote his farewell address, finishing his time as president in 1796 after two terms, he warned America to avoid permanent alliances with foreign nations and to rely instead on temporary alliances for emergencies. President Thomas Jefferson doubled down on this guidance in his inaugural address in 1801 when he said the United States should have honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.
Guns and Gun Control
Mother Charged With Manslaughter After Her 2-Year-Old Fatally Shoots Father It is unclear how the boy managed to get the Glock 19, but his mother acknowledged that “any child in the room could have figured out how to get the gun out of the bag,” the authorities said.
Will Hurd: I Represented Uvalde in Congress. We Must Act on Guns - The New York Times
Last month, a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, a small, quiet community that I represented in Congress, became a war zone. Nineteen beautiful, innocent children and two dedicated, brave teachers are gone forever because of a vicious massacre. It’s infuriating. It’s heartbreaking. It was preventable. Since 2009, 1,565 Americans have been killed in mass shootings. That’s more than the number of U.S. military personnel killed in hostile action in Afghanistan over the same period.
Will Hurd, Unfiltered
(Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images) Good Tuesday morning from Washington, D.C., where the cherry blossoms are in peak bloom. Will Hurd’s American Reboot Former congressman and Central Intelligence Agency officer Will Hurd is acting like a man who wants to run for president. When asked directly about running in 2024, he won’t rule it out. “If the opportunity is there, I’ll evaluate it and see if I can pull it off,” he tells me in a phone interview.
To Understand the Border Crisis, We Must Understand Asylum | GOP Governors’ Recent Antics are Bringing the Border Crisis into Our Living Rooms
Ray Ewing/Vineyard Gazette via AP The fact that many folks are more upset about Governors Abbott and Desantis’s transporting-immigrants-from-Texas-to-blue-cities antics than they are about the yearslong crisis that has been happening at our southern border is an indication that too many people truly don't understand the depths of the problem, especially the issue of asylum.
The Politics of Climate Change
The World is getting weirder. Over one million people lost power in Louisiana recently because of its fourth natural disaster in twelve months. Texas was shut down for a week because of winter storms. People were dying in the Pacific Northwest because it was too hot in the summer and the West Coast seems like it’s perpetually on fire. I had the opportunity recently to meet someone who put all this stuff in context for me.
American Reboot
From former Republican Congressman and CIA Officer Will Hurd, a bold political playbook for America rooted in the timeless ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values. It’s getting harder to get big things done in America. The gears of our democracy have been mucked up by political nonsense. To meet the era-defining challenges of the 21st century, our country needs a reboot.
What exactly is ‘responsible AI’ in principle and in practice?
Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #AIBias The notions of ethical and accountable artificial intelligence (AI)—also referred to as “responsible AI”—have been adopted by many stakeholders from government, industry, civil society, and academic institutions. Making AI systems transparent, fair, secure, and inclusive are core elements of widely asserted responsible AI frameworks, but how they are interpreted and operationalized by each group can vary.
The Middle East and the new US administration
Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #USMiddleEast During the week of February 22, the Center for Middle East Policy (CMEP) at Brookings will host an international conference — bringing together leaders and experts from the region, the United States, and elsewhere in the world — to discuss the top priorities for the United States and the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
Will Hurd: If the GOP wants a future, it must look in the mirror
Will Hurd, a Republican, is a former member of Congress from Texas. Joe Biden is president in large part because Republicans have been incapable of growing the GOP to better reflect the changing demographics in the United States. We won't be able to change that without addressing the epidemic of misinformation that has infected the party and realigning our party's actions based on our values.
US Leadership in AI Not Guaranteed, But Possible
Will Hurd & Robin Kelly RealClearPolicy September 22, 2020 Charles Sykes/AP Images for Siemens The United States is the global leader in artificial intelligence. We have an innovative private sector, world class universities and remain the top destination for international AI talent. However, American leadership is no longer guaranteed.
US Leadership in AI Is Not Guaranteed, But It’s Possible. Here’s How.
The United States is the global leader in artificial intelligence. We have an innovative private sector, world class universities and remain the top destination for international AI talent. However, American leadership is no longer guaranteed.
Donald Trump calls to congratulate Byron Donalds on CD 19 win
Donald Trump, Byron Donalds. 2020 Expect these two standing together on a stage very soon. President Donald Trump called Naples Republican Byron Donalds on Wednesday to congratulate him on a primary win. “The President congratulated me on a tough victory, but a good victory,” the state lawmaker said. “He said he has heard good things about me, and he said ‘From what I see you are going to be a star,’” Donalds said.
Rep. Will Hurd: How to make the 21st century another American century
By Will Hurd 1:30 AM on Aug 16, 2020 CDT The Dallas Morning News is publishing a multi-part series on important issues for voters to consider as they decide who to vote for president this year. This is the second installment of our What’s at Stake series, and it focuses on foreign policy. Find the full series here. Whoever wins the Nov. 3 election will face a rapidly changing national security landscape unlike any we have seen before. The nature of warfare has changed.
Hurd: We must prevent foreign cyber attacks on Texas energy infrastructure
Opinion // Outlook A company owned by a member of the Chinese Communist Party — Guanghui Energy Company — may gain access to our power grid through a large wind farm in the Devil’s River Areas of West Texas, and the federal government is not moving fast enough to prevent it, and the state government lacks the power to stop it. Texas’ power grid is a complex system connecting power generators to consumers through transmission and distribution networks across the state.
Hurd Calls for Independent Investigation Surrounding Guillen Death
I joined several colleagues yesterday in calling for the Department of Defense Inspector General’s Office to conduct an independent investigation into Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s disappearance and murder. Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s disappearance should have been investigated as soon as she went missing. We need to ensure our military service members know there are procedures in place to protect them while on base and if they experience any type of harassment while in service to our country.
Opinion | What Congress Can Do About Police Abuse
While marching in solidarity with George Floyd’s family and 60,000 others in Houston, I saw that you can be outraged by a black man getting murdered in police custody, thankful that law enforcement is enabling our First Amendment rights, and angry that criminals are treading on American values by looting, rioting and killing police.
Trump's Decision to Leave the W.H.O. Will Benefit China - The New York Times
President Trump’s recent decision to terminate America’s role in the World Health Organization will have devastating effects on global health, and it will benefit the Chinese Communist Party. Throughout the Covid-19 crisis, the C.C.P. has pursued an aggressive messaging and disinformation campaign with twin goals: to restore its own image after a botched response to the pandemic and to sow discord among European nations about American commitment abroad.
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