We all know people who don’t vote. People who say their one vote won’t count for much - a spritz of water in an ocean of votes, a crumb, if you will.And we all know people who say they don’t vote because Democratic and Republican politicians are the same: they’re all crooks, they’re ...
John Lewis just died. John L. Lewis died decades ago.John Lewis was a congressman and a hero of the civil rights movement. John L. Lewis was the longtime president of the United Mine Workers and a champion of the working-class.John Lewis was born in Georgia. John L. Lewis was born in Iowa. John ...
In the aftermath of America going to war seven decades ago, presidential secretary Grace Tully reported for work at the White House on December 8, 1941, to find the place transformed.“The grounds were under guard of a special detachment of Military Police,” she would write, “and sentry ...