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It’s the most wonderful – and the most worrisome – time of the year.

When Energy Secretary Rick Perry directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to create a rule aimed at improving the reliability and resilience of our nation’s electricity grid, he said he want to spark a conversation.

Until recently, the basic skills that we are all taught in elementary and secondary school have given us an adequate foundation to lead us through much of daily life.

Kids don’t hang out at malls like they used to. They hang out on social media.

Although leading retail forecasters can’t settle on an exact dollar amount, the consensus is already set: we’re going for a record holiday shopping season.

It doesn’t take much to pick up on the dour mood of our country today.

In the Army, where I have the privilege of serving, there’s an unspoken rule that no service member celebrates Thanksgiving alone.

I have a friend who will have an empty seat at his Thanksgiving table this year.

At the first Thanksgiving, the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims celebrated the gifts of their creator – the natural bounty of the Earth and of cultivated crops – together.

President Trump's opponents naturally have criticized him over a lengthy phone call he had Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

I have a friend who will have an empty seat at his Thanksgiving table this year.

In the Army, where I have the privilege of serving, there’s an unspoken rule that no service member celebrates Thanksgiving alone.

On this Thanksgiving, I would like to address an open letter to the multimillionaire National Football League players who continue to take a knee when “The Star-Spangled Banner” is played.

It doesn’t take much to pick up on the dour mood of our country today.

Should the government borrow against the future?

This Thanksgiving, for the first time since I was a toddler, I will not be watching any NFL games.

It is this friendship, this “special relationship,” that was the center of my conversation with Prime Minister May.

I’ve enjoyed Thanksgiving as an American living in Ohio, North Carolina and New York. And now I enjoy living in Australia – a wonderful place except … Aussies don’t celebrate the wonderful holiday.

Editor's note: The following column originally appeared in The Washington Times.

The recent tsunami of sexual harassment and sexual assault cases beginning in Hollywood but now boiling over onto powerful men is both heart-wrenching and perplexing.