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by | Dec 18, 2017

By the spring of 1968, President Lyndon Johnson was desperate to end the Vietnam War. His desperation was displayed for…

by | Dec 18, 2017

More than 40 years ago, Japan flooded the U.S. market with inexpensive small cars — their manufacture directly subsidized by…

by | Dec 17, 2017

Washington Michael Morell, former acting head of the CIA, became a political animal in August 2016 when he endorsed Hillary…

by | Dec 17, 2017

Nearly a century after the cornerstone was laid in 1920, the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.,…

by | Dec 17, 2017

Going into late last summer, the Los Angeles Dodgers were doing remarkably well. Nearly five months through the long six-month…

by | Dec 16, 2017

World War I ended with the collapse of vast empires and the age-old monarchies that ran them. What kind of…

by | Dec 15, 2017

Monday, your author was perusing his Facebook feed and happened upon a link being bounced around (with more than 46,000…

by | Dec 15, 2017

Good actors show up in terrible films. This year’s The Leisure Seeker is an example: the great Helen Mirren works…

by | Dec 15, 2017

Wednesday A strange day. I awakened in my room in Rancho Mirage, looking out at the swimming pool and the…

by | Dec 15, 2017

The only picture of collusion emerging from the Russian probes is one that implicates Hillary’s. Across the U.S. government, political…

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