Republican lawmakers who publicly refute the 2020 election results that placed Joe Biden in the White House have some explaining to do if they are to be taken seriously and, more importantly, if they are to save the experiment of American democracy.Democracy requires truth-telling. It operates ...
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 ...
Here is a political story that蘑菇视频 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 ...
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 ...
The next few weeks will be crucial ones for Democrats and Joe Biden, for Republicans, for the country as a whole.For in the next few weeks Congress will consider and then pass a COVID-19 relief measure 鈥� President Biden蘑菇视频 American Rescue Plan.As of today, two 鈥� actually three 鈥� ...