Before you pick a movie, you can often watch a trailer offering a brief preview, designed to induce you to see the whole feature. Wouldn’t it be great if we now had a trailer for the 2024 election story? It looks like a cliffhanger. More than a struggle between two candidates or parties, it may […]

A century ago, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, also known as the Immigration Act of 1924, which precipitated a two-generation-long pause in mass migration. Upon Coolidge’s signature, multiple benefits to citizen workers ensued immediately. Immigration dropped from 707,000 in 1924 to 294,000 in 1925. Within a year, more than 400,000 fewer job […]

Before we ponder the big unanswerable question — is this country so sick that it’ll put a convicted felon in the White House? — we should expel a brief sigh of satisfaction. What we witnessed Thursday afternoon was an historic triumph for the rule of law. Twelve everyday citizens did what the gutless Senate Republicans […]

Is it only Americans who love to brawl at sporting events? Probably not, but I’m an American and live here, so for this column, I’ll focus on just our country. I want to know why we act so stupid and uncivilized by fighting and brawling at athletic games. It’s embarrassing. Creating these endless donnybrooks at […]

As Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York neared its end, attentive observers sensed the ex-president was likely to found guilty. While Prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s team presented a clear, tight, well-supported case, the ex-president’s attorneys were all over the map. Whether that was due to poor lawyering or their client’s insistence on denying everything […]

You can’t gloat or groan about the Trump guilty verdict. It was a bad day for America. His critics seem to glory in highlighting his felony conviction as the first for a U.S. president. His allies strive to dismiss the entire trial as being nothing more than pure politics. The pundits run wild with speculation […]

Summer is a time of stretching at Tedford. We have cleared clutter and set up desks for two brilliant interns, who will bolster both our client-facing work and administration. An expanded corps of volunteers are tabling all over town at community events and fundraisers, including Brunswick PRIDE this Sunday, Big Top Deli next Saturday, June 15, […]