WASHINGTON 鈥� When he was a New York Mets baseball broadcaster, Ralph Kiner once explained how cold weather can shorten by 25 feet the distance a flyball travels: 鈥淚f the fence is 338 feet [away] and you hit the ball 338 feet, you鈥檒l be 25 feet short.鈥� Baseball produces more numbers than ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� In December 1944, a Category 2 typhoon slammed Adm. William F. 鈥淏ull鈥� Halsey鈥檚 Third Fleet, which included the USS Monterey, a small, improvised aircraft carrier so unstable that tons of cement had been poured into its port side to make it less so. Tossed like a cork in the ...
WASHINGTON - Before an assassin in 1935 ended his dreaming and scheming, Democrat Huey Long, Louisiana鈥檚 governor-turned-senator, articulated dissatisfaction with the two major parties. A demagogue of considerable intelligence and no scruples, he said of the nation鈥檚 binary choice:鈥淚t ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� 鈥楾is the season to be euphoric, or crestfallen, as young Americans receive notifications from colleges and universities of acceptance or rejection to be members of this or that institution鈥檚 Class of 2027. Never mind the spoilsport who defines college as 鈥渢hose magical ...
WASHINGTON - By their political choices in this century, Americans are refuting a 20th-century belief: that in this society, class distinctions are not persistent, or perhaps even real. Elections are also producing inversions of political behavior in voter cohorts defined by education and ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� Foresight, it has been said, is a dream from which events awaken us. But until events teach otherwise, expect American politics to continue today鈥檚 remarkable condition: boiling but frozen.Polarization has produced stasis. In this century鈥檚 presidential elections 2000-2020, ...