Words matter. Culture matters.History will offer no single explanation as to why the 45th president of the United States won only 46 percent of the popular vote and a 40 percent approval rating upon entering the White House, but claimed to have a mandate to bring about significant change in ...
When the president speaks of closed factories scattered like 鈥渢ombstones鈥� across America, has he noticed the shuttered stores in shopping centers, and entire malls reduced to rubble?He promises 鈥減rotection鈥� to prevent foreigners from 鈥渄estroying鈥� manufacturing jobs by exporting to ...
Along with about 50 percent of all Americans, I was thrilled and proud as I watched the peaceful and dignified inauguration of Donald Trump.But for the past few months and most likely to continue for the foreseeable future there persists a vicious, and unseemly tumult that shames us before the ...
News media beware.Covering the Trump Administration-in both hard news reporting and opinion writing-will not be as easy as it seems. The low hanging fruit offered by a White House prone to hyperbole and even recklessness with truth could turn out to be poisonous.On Saturday, the new White House ...
Now that the horses have left the barn, trotted out the front gate and are galloping headlong down the county road, editors at The New York Times have taken to public bickering about who left the stalls unlatched.Not that it鈥檚 doing the rest of us much good.How the Times retains its ...
鈥淗alima鈥� hid under the bed and tried not to watch as the soldiers slit her brother鈥檚 throat.It was 1999 in Sierra Leone and the country was in the middle of a bloody civil war. Halima waited until the killers left, then crawled out and ran to her brother Salim, who was not breathing. She ...