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Democrats trip on way to nirvana

The past several weeks have not been kind to Democrats, and if they are unable to pass their sweeping domestic legislative agenda, at least in some form, things could go from bad to worse.Ten months into the Biden presidency, Democrats are in a deep funk.For one thing, their poll numbers are ...

Trump books everywhere

Want to make a bundle?Write a book about Donald Trump.Trump books have been in high demand since he took office in 2017.According to the British newspaper The Guardian – “there were more than 4,500 English language books about Mr. Trump that have been published since January of ...

Reviving democracy in the classroom

In an essay nine years ago, Eric Liu, a former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, said that civics – as in high school history and social studies – was “unsexy.”A real turn-off, man.Kids aren’t learning a thing, Liu maintained. Or, they’re not learning whatĢƵ both ...

My apology for something I wrote last week

I have no other explanation, but I was wrong.Dead wrong.It was the kind of unforced blunder that requires only forthright contrition.Here it is.Last week in this space, I referred to an NFL team called the Baltimore Colts.There is no such team.There hasn’t been a team in Baltimore named the ...

With gate off, is the game still on?

On Sept. 23, 1956, 44,932 “bug-eyed” fans (as Bob Prince would say) squeezed into Forbes Field, which had seating for only 34,249 of them.How the Pirates managed to accompany a crowd that was better than 10,000 overcapacity can hardly be imagined. Where did those without seats stand? How ...

The NFL is back – and strong

It seems like it was only yesterday that Donald Trump declared war on many pro football players.In September of 2017, he appeared at one of his (pep) rallies in Alabama, and he asked, “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that ...