At the tail end of his first 100 days in office, President Franklin Roosevelt signed a measure that afforded working men and women the right to join unions of their own choosing. The act was revolutionary. No union leader took it more to heart than the United Mine Workers鈥� John L. Lewis.The ...
He鈥檇 disappeared from public view, hours before Joe Biden officially replaced him as president.He鈥檚 back.Donald Trump resurfaced over the weekend.He did it with a vengeance.Who could be surprised by that?He conniption-fitted his way across that oh, so, garish stage at the recent CPAC ...
The next few weeks will be crucial ones for Democrats and Joe Biden, for Republicans, for the country as a whole.For in the next few weeks Congress will consider and then pass a COVID-19 relief measure 鈥� President Biden鈥檚 American Rescue Plan.As of today, two 鈥� actually three 鈥� ...
When they made Ted Cruz, they broke the mold.Strike that!I meant they broke the mold before they made Ted Cruz.Then they cast him.Since then, he鈥檚 acted accordingly.Cruz wasn鈥檛 well known beyond the state of Texas when he arrived at the U.S. Senate on Jan. 3rd, 2013.He immediately made ...
As crisis gripped Washington in the early days of the Cold War, an aide to Secretary of State George C. Marshall asked how he managed to remain calm. 鈥淚鈥檝e seen worse,鈥� Marshall answered.Indeed he had. As Army chief of staff before and during World War II and then at the State Department, ...
We鈥檙e now stuck with the stench of Trumpism ad infinitum; even longer.Only seven Senate Republicans joined every Senate Democrat in an attempt to extinguish what鈥檚 left of Donald Trump鈥檚 tiresome political career.The rest of the Republicans had their chance.They chickened out.But I ...
