When Albert Einstein unveiled his formula, E=mc2, did he ever think it would lead to the doomsdayers among us waiting nervously to see if Vladimir Putin would be putting his finger on the button ensuring mutual destruction of the world?Einstein was not just a violin playing physicist. He was a ...
<em>Editor鈥檚 note: Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. The following column was published in 2020.</em>Let鈥檚 see a show of hands. Who, among readers of this column, has experienced some anxiety in their lives? Ahhh, as I suspected, there are lots of hands in the air. ...
As a kid, we were never allowed to say 鈥渟hut up.鈥� My Italian grandmother would, however, sometimes playfully say, 鈥淪tatazit,鈥� (pronounced sta-ta-zeet) to my grandfather. In Italian slang, that meant 鈥渟hut up.鈥� But if I ever said that in public, my Presbyterian-Quaker mother would ...
When voters are dissatisfied with the state of things, they punish the party in power, and Democrats seem poised for a thumping. This may be bad news for the health of democracy, but it is understandable as a matter of electoral politics because Democrats have forgotten what they grasped in ...
The temperature outside was in the low teens with snow blowing and drifting on the streets, sidewalks, and yards where I had many times been the creator of the only walking path to get to each of my newspaper customers鈥� doors to deliver their afternoon news.This challenge was not new to me. ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� The vortex of our vexed record on race came out with the cherry blossoms.These three things: the Senate vote on a historic Supreme Court nominee; an anti-lynching law passed at last; and marking the cruel April day Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in Memphis, Tenn.President ...
