Our presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s recently concluded rocky international road tour simply proves that whatever doesn’t play in Des Moines won’t work in London or Jerusalem either. Worse yet, our former governor, Mitt Romney, couldn’t even conceal his blunders behind the hoopla of the Summer Olympics. On the contrary, he used that event as a […]

Six years ago, my husband Matt and I packed up a moving van and left our native Midwest to start anew in Boston. Almost every summer since, my parents have come to visit, and I shift into full “tour guide” mode. Now that I have taken charge of planning the history lessons during their Boston […]

There has been plenty to criticize about President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way — and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to […]