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The ‘terrific panic’ of ‘small men’

Every fall should be a reminder of that far-off day on which the fate of the republic was decided, at least tentatively. I know it is for me. I never fail to recall the bloodshed and horror and hope. To do so this year may be more important than ever – for then, like now, the future appeared ...

Mine workers and the UAW strike

On an April day in 1937, John D. Mallory, “demonstration chairman,” and John P. Depto, toastmaster of that yearĢƵ Mitchell Day celebration for coal miners in Brownsville, messaged mine workers’ president John L. Lewis.At the parade and later at the banquet highlighting the April 1 ...

Protecting the founding documents

The Constitution is housed, under glass for safekeeping, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The romantic and the realist might together say: wrong, it resides in the hearts and sinews of the people of the United States.The parchment on which the Constitution was first written is now ...

The fight for the forgotten American

It is often said we should learn from history. We sometimes do learn from history. Sometimes we don’t.Another oft repeated phrase is that the past is never really in the past. (Thank you, William Faulkner.)References to these axioms – that we should learn from history and that the past ...

Is Biden too old for another term?

Most men Joe BidenĢƵ age are retired gents putting on the green or puttering in the garden, or trudging off to Walmart or Walgreens to get their meds. But Joe Biden is not like the rest of us.Elected to the Senate at the age of 30 in 1972, two years later he was telling a group of Washington ...

In defying Trump, Pence risked all

Would they have actually done it – would the Jan. 6 mob have killed Mike Pence? And, in the process of wrenching the vice president away from his Secret Service protection on that terrible day in 2021, how many folks would have died on both sides? Pledged to do their duty, itĢƵ impossible ...