In Washington, tax dollars get tossed around like Monopoly money, especially in times of crisis when politicians start talking about the need to expand the social safety net. During the worst parts of the pandemic, the political crowd couldn’t act fast enough to get money out the door, but they gave little to no thought […]

The Republicans have, in a move that is hard to appreciate even for profane political reasons, chosen a man many would consider a murderer as the unofficial head of their party. The former President of the United States, Donald Trump, and many of his associates and supporters, are responsible for thousands of deaths from COVID-19 […]

Why Manchin is the next McCarthy I believe that Joe Manchin, if he continues his present ways, will turn out to be like Joe McCarthy in the ’50s. McCarthy was steeped in rabid anti-Communism. He used his position in the Senate to defeat and destroy his political enemies. Other citizens and government leaders, even the […]

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — An appropriately picturesque walking bridge connects the Visitors’ Center at Colonial Williamsburg to the meticulously recreated historic site about a mile away. And every step along it is a step backward into our tangled, jumbled, and often painful history as a nation. At regularly spaced intervals, plaques set into the concrete remind […]

For years, it’s been black letter law in journalistic ethics: Never use your position, insight or knowledge to aid or advise public figures – particularly politicians – in return for something of value. It was a bright line to be crossed at significant personal and professional peril. Over the years the line had been blurred […]

Editor’s Note: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial on Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages […]

“If you give a hungry man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” What if you had the opportunity to get a fly-casting lesson from one of the world’s top fly-casting instructors? And what if your “payment” (a suggested donation) […]

The naked truth about vaxing, voting and hacking