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<em>This weekĢƵ column is the second installment in a two-part series titled “The Number One Need of the Human Condition.” Part one published on Aug. 30.</em>Back step into this thought, what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?Your ...

Can two ex-governors offer hope for consensus?

Politics, the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck famously said, “is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best.”Surveying our political landscape these days, itĢƵ all too easy to conclude that our elected leaders can’t even get to the next, next best. Or ...

<em>This weekĢƵ column is the first installment of a two-part series titled “The Number One Need of the Human Condition.” Part two will publish on Sept. 13.</em>LetĢƵ revisit some things that we need. The most basic human needs are food and water.How about ...

Impromptu bring child to work day

My son was pressed into a business trip to Boston, so they called in the second string to hang with Zoey. Because I had had trouble falling asleep the night before and because I woke up at 6:30 a.m., the day started with some pre-existing challenges. I was tired, but that wasn’t gonna keep me ...

Shortly before Congress adjourned for its summer break, what it aggrandizingly likes to refer to as “constituent work days,” the House of Representatives passed a horrible immigration bill.Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who never met a bill to expand the foreign-born labor pool at American ...

Why is the presidential field so old?

Here are the ages that the top presidential candidates will be on Inauguration Day, 2021: Bernie Sanders, 79; Joe Biden, 78; Donald Trump, 74; and Elizabeth Warren, 71.If Sanders were elected and served two terms, he would be in office until age 87. If Biden did the same, he would serve until ...