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 ...
If you ever hear I've been hit by a truck, a train, or a wheelbarrow, rush to the hospital and blast this in my ear: 鈥淢other, Mother there's too many of you crying ...鈥漁ne line and I'm already yanking out my IV, then I'm dancing around the emergency room.鈥淏rother, Brother, Brother 鈥� ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
