History

Don’t look away from Trump. Observe his baleful glare. It is rooted to a deeper malevolence of the human spirit that has existed since the beginning of…
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Ken Burns helped me imagine what this would have looked like before the slaughter of the buffalo by the tens of millions in the nineteenth century by…
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PLUS: Ken Burns on why the Republican Party completely changed on this week's edition of The Warning podcast
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PLUS: An update on the Newsom-DeSantis debate
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The words that begin the latest federal criminal indictment against Donald Trump are staggering, historic and tragic. They mark the greatest act of…
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Thanks to all of you for your good wishes. Fortunately, I tested negative for Covid, and am feeling much better today, so I’m back to writing! Steve…
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I slowed down when walking past the old photographs hanging on the wall adjacent the coffee nook on the pool level of the Beverly Hilton hotel. They…
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What is pride? How do you measure it? Are you proud, or extremely proud, and more importantly, do you know where the borderline between the two is…
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Around the world and across generations a familiar scene has played out many millions of times, different in the details, yet identical in the main…
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This essay was originally published in today’s edition of Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper. Maria Shriver is an exceptional human being. She is also…
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Happy Canada Day! After a long and difficult slog north from Boston General Benedict Arnold discovered much to his dismay that His Majesty’s loyal…
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A clip of Roseanne Barr on Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast denying the deaths of six million murdered Jewish children, women and men has gone…
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