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November 11, 2016 Day 3: Still thinking Yesterday, President Obama met with Donald Trump at the White House. It was the first time either of them had met. According to brief remarks made to the Press afterward, their collegial meeting lasted about...

There’s the City of Brotherly Love in Pennsylvania, and then there’s Philadelphia, Mississippi: Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of activists James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a ...

What an amazing convention.  Fantastic speakers, great performances, great music not accompanied by a takedown order from the artist, and the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans couldn’t be more stark.  When Scott Baio is a key speaker...

I have watched, listened to, and read many commentaries on the inaugural address but so far none of the mainstream pundits have used the one word that best identifies Donald Trump: fascist. The United States is not Weimar Germany. Our economic problems...

Looking back on 2016, it would be tough to argue that there was any single cultural phenomena that was bigger, or had more of an impact on American society than what has been referred to by many as “Trumpmania,” or “Trumphoria.” If Donald Trump was the...