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The unconventional 2020 Conventions

Our major party conventions aren’t what they used to be. That much was evident at last weekĢƵ covid-19-shaped virtual gathering of Democrats.From the goose-bump-raising presentation of the Star Spangled Banner at its opening and the travel-wishful roll call of the states on Tuesday to vivid ...

‘We can overcome’ … together

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 ...

Why John L. Lewis still matters

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 ...

The White House is now off-limits

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 ...

Embrace golf, banish the hypocrisy

I wish one of two things would happen — that the media would quit squawking about Donald Trump playing golf — that Donald Trump would quit playing golf.Both pundits and Trump are giving golf a bad name. Golf is too valuable to be disrespected, which is exactly whatĢƵ happening now.Take ...

The no longer unique U.S.A.

As a people we have long celebrated the idea of “American exceptionalism.”The concept itself has been debated from time to time, and while the idea that America is unique among the nations of the world has been buffeted about, its staying power has been little short of remarkable.It has ...