Like many people, I was glued to the news for much of last Saturday, watching what seemed, at least for a moment, to be the first stages of a coup d鈥檈tat 鈥� and it still might be. The only thing we know for certain is that if this is the beginning of the end of Vladimir Putin鈥檚 rule, that ...
鈥漅emembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.鈥� 鈥� Marcel ProustNostalgia, a term that originated as a medical diagnosis for Swiss mercenaries suffering from homesickness, is the sorrowful longing for a lost past. An April Pew survey found that ...
Is the Supreme Court ready for reform yet?That鈥檚 my updated version of the immortal declaration that legendary alderman and saloonkeeper Mathias 鈥淧addy鈥� Bauler reportedly delivered on the night of Richard J. Daley鈥檚 first election as Chicago鈥檚 mayor in 1955: 鈥淐hicago ain鈥檛 ready ...
<strong>Cheers</strong>: When a portion of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia collapsed earlier this month after a truck carrying gasoline overturned and ignited, most officials projected that the loss of the overpass would close the highway for weeks, leading to major ...
Money is not the only answer.With government, it often seems that way. No matter what the problem may be, there are any number of solutions that can be proposed. Most of them have big-ticket spending attached, which can end up on the chopping block later when the problem being solved is the ...
