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Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic March on Washington, much of his dream is still just a dream. I’d like to offer a more cheerful message, but that’s hard today, even for a resilient self-described optimist like me, after this year’s anniversary march on the ...
This November, Pennsylvanians will elect a new judge to the state’s Supreme Court. The contest is shaping up as another donnybrook pitting pro-life and pro-choice forces against one another. It doesn’t require a Ph.D. in political science to guess how this one is going to turn out. ...
Washington — An ancient Roman poet foresaw former President Donald Trump as a deposed ruler raging to regain power in a famous line, with “bread and circuses.” Master satirist Juvenal poked at corruption in Rome’s leaders. Yet he also aimed his pen at the people, who lost their ...
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” scoffed then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in 2019. Two years later, now president Biden declared: “The Chinese are eating our lunch. They’re eating our lunch, economically. They’re investing hundreds of billions of dollars in ...
Vivek Ramaswamy got off to a great start in this primary season’s first Republican presidential debate, and then things slid rapidly downhill. The 38-year-old entrepreneur and graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School is a new face in politics, national or otherwise, as his opening ...
I remember. Do you? Sixty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, seeking to focus the nation’s attention on civil rights and jobs. I was a high school junior, watching the event from afar on TV. I was mesmerized ...