Tuesday night didn’t exactly go the way the pollsters thought it would with President Donald Trump making a much stronger showing in the early going than predicted. […]
Opinion
The election is winding down, but the pandemic isn’t
Two days after the election and COVID-19 has not disappeared. This comes as no great shock to the majority of people, but for the very […]
The time has come: The choice 2020
Every four years this columnist writes about the stark choice between the candidates for president (and vice president) and their views on how the country should be […]
Vaccine politics replace election politics
Heading into Tuesday’s U.S. general election, speculation was rife as to whether a Joe Biden victory might herald a big leftward shift, or what kind of chaos […]
When good apples throw bad apples out of the barrel
For months — years, really — we’ve heard cries of “a few bad apples” every time a police officer anywhere commits a civil rights violation or an […]
Happy endings in United States history are not guaranteed
America is not guaranteed. There is, in other words, nothing foreordained about this country someday returning to anything approximating normal. That’s important to keep in mind as […]
Can Americans trust the election?
When I was a boy I used to go vote with my mother on Election Day. At a nearby public school, we would enter a booth, draw […]
It’s Election Day, but we won’t know winners by tonight
Election Day is different for everyone. For some people, today dawned with great fanfare — a kind of big brass band of excitement. Others awakened and […]
It won’t be easy to kick your sugar habit, but it’ll save your life
A spoonful of sugar makes your life span go down. That’s the conclusion of one study conducted by researchers at Harvard, which found that having too many […]
Trump may be most memorable for his lies
For those who occasionally have dared me to say something nice about President Donald Trump, here you go: His first — and, I pray, only — term […]
