Advice to new graduates and summer interns: You have obligation to be an ethical advocate
(WorldNews Politics)

Dear 2019 graduates and interns heading to DC, If you are reading this, you are probably thinking about a career in Washington. As someone who has spent more than 25 years working on the politics of public policy, I applaud you. Our democracy needs smart, idealistic, and hard-working young people like you. As you pour into the cafeterias in Longworth and Dirksen, and the bars in Adams Morgan and along H Street, indulge a bit of unsolicited advice from someone who has been around for a while: Find your ethical foundation, and stand firmly on it.ADVERTISEMENT Hopefully you are working politics because you believe in something larger than yourself. If you are in it for the fame, wealth or...