During the 1970s, the word went out: The country needed a Lincoln, not a Ford. That's even truer now. Can the U.S. produce a public figure who combines politically savvy and principled leadership as well as Old Abe did? Probably not. In our history, there's only been one Lincoln. Commenting ...
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In the mid-1980s, I proudly told my wife I had fit into a pair of Levi鈥檚 that were a size too small. Proof of my never-ending youth. Without a word, she slid a copy of Newsweek across the kitchen counter. On the cover? A man in Levi鈥檚. The headline? 鈥淟evi鈥檚 Now Pear-Shaped to Fit the ...
Ronald Reagan's adage about the old Soviet Union should maybe apply to President Trump's recent sweeping declaration involving U.S. Steel, Japan's Nippon Steel, and the future of American steelmaking in the Mon Valley and elsewhere: "Trust but verify." The president's May 30 rally at U.S. ...
Q. Will you please use my question in your column? I want to know why some people are so hateful about Pride. Let me explain. This is personal to me. My big brother is gay. He鈥檚 not only my big brother, he鈥檚 my best friend. See, I had leukemia when I was 7. Technically, I still have it, but ...
Here are some stories commemorating both Memorial Day and the June 6 anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944: Pete Giron was a Western Union delivery boy in Greensburg during the Second World War. He was a high school kid, 15 or 16 years old, too young to serve in the military, ...
