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OP-ED: It’s the economy, Joe, and only the economy

Joe BidenĢƵ supporters – and perhaps Biden himself – can’t understand why the presidential poll numbers on the economy aren’t better. Why is he getting so little credit for so much good news on inflation, wages, jobs and the recovery of American manufacturing? Donald TrumpĢƵ idea of ...

OP-ED: It’s time to end the ‘era of the Great Distraction’

WASHINGTON - Dazzling U.S. precision weapons in the Gulf War 32 years ago encouraged a theory that was dangerous because it was soothing: The era of industrialized wars — those in which the mass manufacturing capacities of the combatant nations would be decisive — had ended. This theory has ...

OP-ED: Tony Bennett: More than a ‘crooner’

It was in the early 1960s. I was a copy boy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if I’d like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with his guest, Tony Bennett.For several hours we cruised past some of WashingtonĢƵ most famous ...

OP-ED: Tony Bennett: More than a ‘crooner’

It was in the early 1960s. I was a copy boy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if I’d like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with his guest, Tony Bennett.For several hours we cruised past some of WashingtonĢƵ most famous ...