I found it odd that Randy Feenstra’s opinion piece cited the Fitch downgrade of US debt to be odd as this was what I had read: “Why Fitch downgraded U.S. credit? Fitch downgraded the United States to AA+ from AAA, citing fiscal deterioration over the next three years and repeated ...
President Joe Biden, we keep hearing, is a deeply empathetic man. It is that empathy that brought him to the presidency — his deep and abiding capacity to connect with others. In “What It Takes,” Richard Ben Cramer’s detailed blow-by-blow of the 1988 election cycle, Ben Cramer describes ...
No one likes to talk about suicide. And if a person does talk about suicide, the people they talk to typically don’t know how to respond. “No, don’t do that.” Or the trite cliché, “Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary situation.” Which is true, but does it really help the ...
As I noted in my column of several weeks ago, it’s a plus for everyone that Donald Trump will not show for the Republican debate. And now it’s official. He’s not showing up. Now we can have a debate about issues and not about Trump. Let’s also keep in mind, regarding the debate, ...
If it “got late early” in the old majestic Yankee Stadium with its long shadows, as the famous Yogi Berra quote had it, it’s gotten late before about the fourth inning in the Republican presidential race. In 2016, Donald Trump loved to pump out the results of unreliable online polls ...
Though not one to follow the celebrities, I still can’t get the divorce of Britney Spears and Sam Asghari out of my headspace. They’d been married for only a year and change, but their wedding was covered as a triumph of recovery. Who was there? Madonna, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton. ...