Not everyone gets to save the world. Before the colors of the Sixth of June 1944 fade into the mists of time, we remember after the passage of 75 years the uncommon sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of America, of Britain and Canada.
Summer approaches, and a gloomy pall, some of it manufactured and some of it real, casts a shadow over the land of the free.
President Trump is fond of tariffs, seeing them as both a means and an end.
The Republicans really, really don't want Roy Moore to run again for the U.S. Senate. He might be the only politician in Alabama more unpopular than Doug Jones, the Democratic incumbent, but he could scramble a primary and might open a way for Mr. Jones to win another term. Republicans know they have to be careful in dealing with Roy Moore. Voters don't like it when outsiders meddle, even if they're friendly outsiders.
Every decade produces a new drug to terrorize the mean streets, the family hearth and especially threatens the young. Heroin was the scourge of the '70s. Cocaine scourged the '80s and crack was the nightmare of the '90s, hitting hardest those trying to survive on the margins and who would mortgage the future for a brief escape from misery. To be sure, these drugs have been with man for centuries, but they have returned to modern times with a vengeance.
Nancy Pelosi has the hardest job in town, perhaps except for the president's. She knows removing Donald Trump from office is probably impossible, but a growing number of Democrats in the House are itching to try. How can the speaker please both the grown-ups and the fantasists in her caucus, and at the same time?
Transparency is essential in windows and in governance. It's the window that gives a clear view of the workings of government. Now that President Trump has authorized the declassification of information about government surveillance during the 2016 presidential election, it's important to remember that transparency is neither red nor blue.
It was if a news dispatch from Berlin, circa 1937. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Felix Klein, the government official charged with monitoring outbreaks of anti-Semitism in Germany, suggested that Jewish men refrain from wearing kippas, or skullcaps. "I can't tell Jews [it's safe] to wear the kippa everywhere in Germany," he said. It was a stunning admonition to the nation's 200,000 Jews.
Flinging open the windows and doors to embrace the sights, sounds and color of approaching summer is one of the most delicious rites of spring, and it's easy not to be to be conscious of the unblinking eyes that are looking back at you. It's time you were.
Thanks to the prick of the human conscience, it's hard to forget a debt. That small voice within is an internal reminder to do the right thing. Americans share a collective obligation in the form of the national debt, which has recently rocketed through the $22 trillion mark. As congressional officials strategize how to add to the $181,000 bill already owed in the name of each taxpayer, the many small voices must join together as one to declare it loud and clear: The era of irresponsible spending must be over.
This is the season when presidential candidates are learning that running for president isn't as easy as they thought it would be. This is the time to start looking for something to rescue a faltering campaign. Sen. Kamala Harris is trying to lift hers with an ambitious scheme to narrow the gender pay gap, the difference between the earnings of men and women. Companies with even a 1 percent gap between the two sexes could be fined under her scheme.
Political trends, like the common cold, are contagious. Revolutions are often not confined to one country. The Communist revolution in Russia soon spread across the first half of the 20th century. The rise of fascism occurred in tandem across wide swaths of the world.
When the winds of change begin to blow, it's hard to predict where the consequences will settle. The migrant masses congregating at the borders have gone airborne, threatening to overfly President Trump and his proposal for orderly immigration that preserves national sovereignty. The immigration chaos is undeniably a crisis, and the government's idea for spreading the chaos by air threatens to make the crisis impossible to contain.
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