Republican lawmakers who publicly refute the 2020 election results that placed Joe Biden in the White House have some explaining to do if they are to be taken seriously and, more importantly, if they are to save the experiment of American democracy.Democracy requires truth-telling. It operates ...
The past year has not been a good year for the country, as we know. It was equally horrific for baseball, which, beginning last April, lost nine all-time greats, including the incomparable Henry Aaron.Eight of the nine were players. One, Tommy Lasorda, was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a ...
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Here is a political story that鈥檚 aged maybe too well, given the shaky condition of our institutions and of our democracy. It takes place in January 1934, as the Great Depression rages on.At least one person 鈥� the principal character in this short narrative 鈥� correctly sensed that the ...
On April 10, 1964, at 4:55 in the afternoon, President Lyndon Johnson spoke on the telephone with Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia about a federal judgeship.In the course of their conversation, preserved on tape and available on the internet, LBJ briefly raised the subject of the Senate ...
We鈥檙e now deep in the thralls of a full-blown Dr. Seuss conspiracy.That鈥檚 according to Fox News and assorted Republicans.It鈥檚 supposedly the result of overzealous liberal thought-police, with their hopes of canceling stuff that makes them feel uncomfortable.Problem is, that鈥檚 a ...
