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OP-ED: After a month of baseball’s new rules, it’s time to rejoice

WASHINGTON — When he was a New York Mets baseball broadcaster, Ralph Kiner once explained how cold weather can shorten by 25 feet the distance a flyball travels: “If the fence is 338 feet [away] and you hit the ball 338 feet, you’ll be 25 feet short.” Baseball produces more numbers than ...

OP-ED; In ‘ordinary man,’ a certain greatness emerges of Gerald Ford

WASHINGTON — In December 1944, a Category 2 typhoon slammed Adm. William F. “Bull” HalseyĢƵ Third Fleet, which included the USS Monterey, a small, improvised aircraft carrier so unstable that tons of cement had been poured into its port side to make it less so. Tossed like a cork in the ...

OP-ED: Voters do not want a Biden-Trump rematch. A third option might appeal.

WASHINGTON - Before an assassin in 1935 ended his dreaming and scheming, Democrat Huey Long, LouisianaĢƵ governor-turned-senator, articulated dissatisfaction with the two major parties. A demagogue of considerable intelligence and no scruples, he said of the nationĢƵ binary choice:“It ...

OP-ED: A classless, socially fluid America? Not today, not in politics.

WASHINGTON - By their political choices in this century, Americans are refuting a 20th-century belief: that in this society, class distinctions are not persistent, or perhaps even real. Elections are also producing inversions of political behavior in voter cohorts defined by education and ...

OP-ED: How ‘I despise, therefore I am’ locks in the political status quo

WASHINGTON — Foresight, it has been said, is a dream from which events awaken us. But until events teach otherwise, expect American politics to continue todayĢƵ remarkable condition: boiling but frozen.Polarization has produced stasis. In this centuryĢƵ presidential elections 2000-2020, ...