Confession: For the past couple of years, I fell into the “Biden shouldn’t run again” camp. Too old. Better not to ask Americans to reelect a man who will be 82 in November of 2024 and ... you know the rest. Nikki Haley summed it up tactlessly in April: “The idea that he would make it ...
The one-term, twice-impeached, four-time-indicted, ex-president Donald John Trump is now facing a combined 712½ years in prison sentences.He’ll plead not guilty to all 91 criminal charges against him.Was there any doubt he’d do that?He may not appear to be humbled by it all on the outside. ...
“Fenway Park,” John Updike begins his famous 1960 piece on Ted Williams, “is a lyric little band box of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curious sharp focus....”Goodness, that’s not what the ball yard in Rowes Run resembles. Like Fenway Park in Boston, Rowes Run ...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - In the 1960s, Orange County south of Los Angeles fascinated social scientists who, like anthropologists studying primitives, considered its residents exotic. The county gave Barry Goldwater 56% of its votes in the 1964 presidential election while he was winning just ...
Marion County, Kansas, is located in the middle of the state, almost three hours west of Kansas City, Kan., and is really not the kind of place anyone would really expect to ever hear anything about.It has a population of about 11,000 people, and its weekly newspaper, the ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> For anyone whose concerns about climate change have been heightened by this summer’s wildfires, storms and record-setting temperatures, The <em>New York Times</em> had a headline that allowed for a rare bit of ...
