During the 1970s, the word went out: The country needed a Lincoln, not a Ford. That's even truer now. Can the U.S. produce a public figure who combines politically savvy and principled leadership as well as Old Abe did? Probably not. In our history, there's only been one Lincoln. Commenting ...
Ronald Reagan's adage about the old Soviet Union should maybe apply to President Trump's recent sweeping declaration involving U.S. Steel, Japan's Nippon Steel, and the future of American steelmaking in the Mon Valley and elsewhere: "Trust but verify." The president's May 30 rally at U.S. ...
Here are some stories commemorating both Memorial Day and the June 6 anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944: Pete Giron was a Western Union delivery boy in Greensburg during the Second World War. He was a high school kid, 15 or 16 years old, too young to serve in the military, ...
What's an ally worth? Plenty, if you're in a foxhole or storming a beach with one. The same is true if, as a U.S. soldier, you had a native-guide ally on your team in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan in the treacherous months and years after 9/11. Not so much if you are a member of ...
On a summer evening in Milwaukee, with his team mired near the bottom of the National League, Pirates' manager Bobby Bragan emerged from the dugout mid-game. Bragan headed toward the umpires. Strangely enough, he was sipping from a small drinking carton. Moments earlier, the brash Bucco ...
Donald Trump acts like there's no tomorrow. How else to explain the fact that he's willfully squandered the goodwill of at least some of the people who elected and then sustained him early in his second presidency? A recent poll - a Pew poll released last week - places Trump's job approval at ...
