Our octogenarian president traveled 8,000 miles to meet with India鈥檚 premier, Narendra Modi, and to attend the G20 summit in New Delhi. He then flew another 2,000 miles to visit America鈥檚 new pal, Vietnam 鈥� all over the course of just five days. That鈥檚 a demanding trip, even for a ...
The challenges and threats facing our Democracy can seem so enormous and systemic that you might think one person, one article, or one vote couldn鈥檛 possibly make a difference.But the biggest threat of all is giving in and believing all is already lost.This month we celebrate Democracy Day on ...
鈥淭oday, I am directing my House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,鈥� announced Republican House Speaker and whipping boy Kevin McCarthy last Tuesday.Despite the ominous sound of that proclamation, it鈥檚 McCarthy鈥檚 political career that鈥檚 in ...
The presidential horse race is off and running on TV news and on social media. History tells us that the poll numbers at this point reveal close to nothing about the future. The political pundits portray their analyses as thunderbolts carried down from Mount Olympus. But frankly, anyone could ...
The Constitution is housed, under glass for safekeeping, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The romantic and the realist might together say: wrong, it resides in the hearts and sinews of the people of the United States.The parchment on which the Constitution was first written is now ...
Once upon a time, life was pretty quiet in Pennsylvania on Sundays.This was mostly the result of so-called 鈥渂lue laws鈥� that prohibited many different types of activity on Sunday so that people could rest and turn their attention to religious observance. The first of the commonwealth鈥檚 ...
