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Stoic Midwestern Protestants are not emotive. It's hard for them to talk much about themselves in the Southern porch style. Unlike fellow Americans on the East and West Coasts, they don't write urbane novels or ...
Her name was Margaret Chase Smith, a Mainer from small Skowhegan. Senator Smith to you and me, she was the first woman to run for president from a major political party. In 1964, the Maine ...
As August exits, two political hurricanes, named Hillary and Donald, will hit landfall to slam a thousand towns. It's not clear which gale force is strongest. What's clear is, the electorate is cut apart along ...
Bill Clinton was the best president in my life, a bringer of peace and prosperity in the 1990s. Many enjoyed his sunny exuberance, his talents in the same class as Republican Theodore Roosevelt. Now I'm ...
"This is a time to stand up and be counted — just like supporters of the civil rights movement once chose to do," says my newly liberal friend, cut free after an agonizing journey.
The neocon foreign policy elite vigorously embraced and enforced President George W. Bush starting three wars going into the 21st century: Afghanistan, Iraq and the global "war on terror." Now these wise men are warning ...
Along the way to the nomination, Trump alienated wide swaths of the populace, (like Muslims and Mexicans). But he just made a mistake the arrogant Arnold would not make: Trump belittled the Khans, a Gold ...
Few in the Democratic Convention multitude knew, but Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love is known for Sisterly Affection. I wonder if Hillary Clinton, the first woman nominee, knows the city's Quaker name. We shall ...
The incurable Donald Trump, party standard-bearer, can be seen as the opposite of a lighthouse. He brings out the darkness in people, leads the establishment to recklessly crash on the rocks and speaks to followers ...
The funeral of five Dallas police officers slain by a black former Army reservist was a solemn panoply of presidential unity. To comfort a country rocked by two years of police violence against black men, ...
