Editor: There is broad agreement that President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech was a dirge that described us as two steps from the grave — only to be saved by him. Each day gets worse. Rather than building on the past
Meet Civic Challenge
Meet civic challenge Editor: We’ve been warned that ignorant people cannot be a free people. Benjamin Franklin, when asked in the summer of 1787 what kind of government we would have, answered, “A republic — if you can keep it.”
Plea for reason
Editor: It might be that the Clinton campaign’s most eloquent and convincing surrogate said it in very simple terms. First lady Michelle Obama advised: “When they go low, we go high.” There is no benefit to attacking Donald Trump on
Unsuitable candidate
Editor: By this time — in what has seemed an interminable presidential election campaign — we have been exposed to the ideas, the experience and temperaments of the lead presidential candidates enough to know who they are and what they
Avoid our undoing
Editor: Donald Trump promises to make America great again but even if you believe in the premise, the price of this makeover is too high. It would entail losing our soul — our values, our diversity, indeed, our democracy. He’d
Precious Right
Editor: The Republican and Democratic conventions gave us a panoramic view of America in 2016. I won’t go so far as to say that we are two countries but we are a study in contrasts, with very different opinions about
Flaw of arrogance
Editor: As the Republican convention continues and the air is thick with anxiety, shock and disorder, as Republicans are busy trying to clean up Donald Trump’s act and reshape him into a model candidate — they aren’t succeeding. More than
Two majorities at odds
Editor: It is almost unspeakable and it is not politics — it is unconscionable mischief. I guess we should not be surprised that the Republican majority in Congress would use its power to defeat Democratic bills and ideas. Recall that
Disdain for nation
Editor: Irony is too mild a term to describe the defection of Republican Party faithful to the GOP’s presumptive candidate for the presidency. The almost unanimous contempt party leaders expressed for Donald Trump and the measures they took unsuccessfully to
Bully for Trump
Editor: Beyond their ideologies and mindsets, we look for traits in presidents that are, let’s say, presidential. This includes leadership skills, decisiveness, wise prioritizing, empathy, diplomatic capacity and other attributes. In an age in which we recognize bullying as a