President Donald Trump's visit to China this week arrives at one of the most dangerous and morally complicated moments in modern geopolitical history. The optics will be carefully choreographed: towering skylines, ceremonial handshakes, military precision, economic pledges and polished displays ...
Two hundred fifty years ago this summer, delegates met in Philadelphia and signed their names to a document that risked everything. The Declaration of Independence was a bet that ordinary people, given truthful information about those in power, could govern themselves. That promise is harder ...
History attributes the famous milk idiom to a Mr. James Howell, who, in 1659, included the phrase 鈥淣o weeping for shed milk鈥� in his book 鈥淧aramoigraphy (Proverbs).鈥� But I think it was probably a mother whose toddler knocked over a cup and sent a waterfall of white cascading onto the ...
