Our missteps can come with key lessons learned, and the Up First newsletter team wants to hear from people who want to share theirs. We not only want to hear the biggest lessons you might have ...

Let's start with the lessons we thought we learned in Vietnam that have been repeated. When Saigon fell, there was conventional wisdom in Washington that we should never again try nation-building.

The 18th banner, collected last summer ... We’re about to find out for sure which lessons were learned, and which ones never stuck. I’ll go on the record here, a positive voice in the ...