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'America's Heartland' Has Reason to Be Underwhelmed by Trump Oct. 29, 2018
Conspicuously absent in the campaign pitches of Midwestern GOP politicians are enthusiastic statemen... Read More
I Loved and Lost Barack Obama (in the Trumpian Civil War) Oct. 24, 2018
WASHINGTON — I once loved Barack Obama, but don't see enough of him anymore. Is he writing pen... Read More
Say a Prayer for Fall River Oct. 22, 2018
In Fall River, Massachusetts, the red brick and gray granite perpetually poor city of 90,000 where I... Read More
'Halloween' and 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' Michael Myers Comes Home Again, and Melissa McCarthy Plays It Straight Oct. 19, 2018
The new "Halloween" is a welcome opportunity to forget all the nonsense we learned from the nine seq... Read More
Disability Benefits: One Question Leads to Another Oct. 17, 2018
Q: I don't understand. I was getting Social Security disability benefits. But I found a job that I c... Read More
Age and a Nice Walk Oct. 15, 2018
Being 61 years old, and damn near, kind of, semi-retired, I told my wife I was going to walk every d... Read More
Why Do We Care About Jamal Khashoggi? Oct. 12, 2018
He had an appointment at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to collect some documents he needed to marr... Read More
Dems' Socialist Ideas Will Tank Economy Oct. 10, 2018
The most striking difference between Democrats and Republicans is not their views on #MeToo, affirma... Read More
LYNDA HIRSCH ON TELEVISION -- SUMMARIES Oct. 06, 2018
"THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL": The tension in the courthouse is thick as Bill, Katie, Thorne, Ridge, ... Read More
We Are All Deplorables Now Oct. 05, 2018
Four days after he described Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, as a "very... Read More
'A Star Is Born' and 'Venom': Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga on Fire; Tom Hardy: Space Case Oct. 05, 2018
The plot remains as syrupy as it was in the three previous iterations of this story (1937, with Jane... Read More
Paterfamilias -- Trump and the Perils of Paternalism Oct. 04, 2018
No one likes to be scolded or told what to do by an authority figure, even if it is for your own goo... Read More
Seriously Mentally Ill Oct. 03, 2018
They live on the street, often foraging through dumpsters. Some threaten us. Occasionally, they assa... Read More
A Word on Behalf of Religion Oct. 03, 2018
These have been hard times for American institutions. Over the past four to five decades, confidence... Read More
Are Republicans Born Wimps? Oct. 02, 2018
Republican leaders are "a bunch of wimps," said Jerry Falwell Jr. Conservatives and Christians need ... Read More
It's Job Search Time! Or Is It? Sep. 27, 2018
Do you love your job? No matter what you may think, odds are that you hate your job. In fact, you've... Read More
A Polarized America? Not Quite Sep. 23, 2018
Modern America is sharply polarized, battered by political furies and divided as never before. Moder... Read More
Feinstein v. Kavanaugh Sep. 19, 2018
While questioning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about abortion during his Senate confirmatio... Read More
The Late Hit on Judge Kavanaugh Sep. 18, 2018
Upon the memory and truthfulness of Christine Blasey Ford hangs the Supreme Court nomination of Judg... Read More
