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Betsy Ross and the Supremes

The news is little more than a constant churn of whatĢƵ new; whatĢƵ old; whatĢƵ changed – or whatĢƵ staying the same. Some news stories, though, have what they call “legs.” Sometimes I have a hunch about those. Last month, when it was first reported in The New York Times ...

MAGA memo maps Trump strategy

A not-so-secret memo from one of the dark-money, cash-happy political action committees supporting Donald Trump confirms the central role Pennsylvania is expected to play in the election for president this November. Make America Great Again Inc., which by law is prohibited from coordinating ...

I was a war correspondent

Over the years, I’ve aspired to do many things. I’ve failed at many of them. I’ve conveniently forgotten the rest. ThatĢƵ what makes me so well-adjusted (for the most part). I can reach back over the years and sift through those aspects of my life that didn’t go the way I planned ...

My commencement address

ItĢƵ that season again. The nationĢƵ, no, the worldĢƵ notables are fanning out around the globe – dispensing their wisdom at learning institutions with their personally crafted commencement speeches. I haven’t paid much attention to any commencement speech since June 1, 1966 – the ...

The ‘roaring mob’ that changed us

Edward Achorn's "The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History," published last year, dishes the dirt on maybe the most muddled and sketchiest political convention ever, but also the most important. Achorn unspools the raucous gathering of Republican delegates in ...

Here comes that bold-faced liar again!

We were all warned. On Jan. 21, 2017, brand new White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stood before the assembled world media and told a magnificent whopper about the previous dayĢƵ presidential goings-on. He boasted that it had been the “largest audience to ever witness an ...