"They are everywhere - almost 18 million young Americans crowding into classrooms, spilling into the streets, filing cars and stores and beaches. They have been probed and prodded and psychoanalyzed. And yet, as behavioral scientists point out, 鈥�... the years between childhood and adulthood ...
How do you bring entire communities together? Two things. It starts with a fast break. It ends with an easy layup. In recent winters, you could watch Uniontown鈥檚 wildly cheering fans erupt simultaneously at high school gymnasiums all over western Pennsylvania. That鈥檚 what sports can ...
It's normal for members of a president's inner circle to stick up for the man who was their boss. Most became great admirers. Typical is Harry Hopkins, who described his boss, Franklin Roosevelt, this way: "When great issues were at stake Roosevelt never faltered." And then there's Donald ...
As if anybody is being held in suspense 鈥� Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden are two salty old men 鈥� one of whom will be the nation鈥檚 next president 鈥� again. They鈥檙e now, officially, both 鈥減resumptive nominees鈥� 鈥� again. And the American public is bracing itself for the ...
On a wall near the Historic Summit Inn registration desk hangs a framed page with the signatures of some famous guests from long ago. Two signatures belong to two titans of the early 20th century whose work transformed America and the world forever. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison spent a night ...
In my free time, (there鈥檚 lots of that these days), I find myself rummaging through some of the old columns I鈥檝e written over the years. I found one column from 2007 that seems to be prescient this week. 鈥淚 Lost Winter,鈥� was a column I wrote for the 缅北禁地 back in March of ...
