The idea that the past has something to teach us is time-worn: we say it, but do we really mean it? Mostly, the answer is no. However, this particular moment in our national history may be, could be, the exception. If it happened once, it can happen again. Fingers crossed. Eleanor Roosevelt, ...
We鈥檝e made it! We鈥檙e at the end of 2023. It鈥檚 time for various entities to hand out their annual awards for the year. Time magazine鈥檚 2023 Person of the Year was a no-doubter 鈥� Taylor Swift. I鈥檒l be honest. I can鈥檛 remember the last time I heard a Taylor Swift song. Or, if ...
Not only is President Joe Biden tied, or even behind, Donald Trump in some recent public opinion polling, but he has two severe foreign policy crises at a time when his public focus should be on framing his domestic agenda as well his prospective election opponent as a mortal enemy to American ...
Three weeks ago, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) was beside himself on the floor of the U.S. House. He launched into a blistering tirade against his fellow Republicans. 鈥淚 want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did it,鈥� Roy said with the ...
"I am not a communist," pleaded an obscure coal miner by the name of John Cassol, who went on to ask a high-up union official to please try to save his livelihood. "I was always a good union man.... My job means a lot to me. I have a large family." Another miner, caught in the same dragnet, ...
Last year at this time, Republicans were scratching their heads after their expected 鈥淩ed Wave鈥� fizzled.That must鈥檝e hurt.They had expected to be able to take full control of Congress the following January. But instead, they鈥檝e been in complete disarray ever since.Not my monkey. Not my ...
