Joseph Filko

Today, thanks in large part to the 24-hour news cycle and social media, we are on the receiving end of an endless firehose full of news, commentary and the ever-present...

After Election 2020, this column characterized both of our most recent presidential elections as “acts of desperation”. In Election 2016, many Republicans and right-leaning independents, desperate to prevent another four...

What the nation really needs now is a paradigm shift, i.e., a new way of looking at the world around us and seeing it through a different mindset, writes Joseph...

The nation’s self-promoting “financial experts” should confine themselves to what they do best, which is to render sound generic advice and encouragement but avoid straying into specifics in areas in...

Joseph Filko looks at how the scope and the power of the executive branch of our American government has been expanding.

There was a time when Presidential debates were helpful and informative. The first ones that I watched were between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. Still in high school,...

Our political leadership must continue to speak out against the abusive behavior occurring on our campuses and on public property, writes Joseph Filko.

The only chance that any of us has to approach the truth is to expose ourselves to as many points of view as possible and with the singular intent of...

When we cast a vote for president, we are also casting a vote for his or her power to make nominations to the federal judiciary.