The theological banter with Giovanni was not on Christmas Eve but on the day before. Christmas Eve this year in Washington, D.C., was warm and too damp for tennis, but the day before was cold and sunny; his suggestion was…
Friday An astonishing night. I’m in D.C. at my apartment at the Watergate. This afternoon Bob, my pal and driver, my caregiver, and a woman friend of college age went out to Oxford, Maryland. It’s a super-cute pre-Revolutionary village in…
In June 2020, a two-block section of 16th Street where it meets H Street (NW) at the north end of the park in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., was named Black Lives Matter Plaza, the words themselves painted…
There are only hours to go before election day, and businesses in most major cities are boarding up in expectation of protests, riots, and God knows what else. This weekend, I passed through Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Minneapolis. It’s the…
“This is your country,” Oumi says, “tell me what’s going on.” “It’s your country too, sweetie.” She finds herself under curfew, short hours at the store where she works, her customers telling her they missed her because they came too…
To borrow from the late, great New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, it’s like déjà vu all over again. As one American city after another has exploded into seemingly endless nights of violence in 2020 — every last one of…
You hit the wall, bam, curtains. It is a grim picture, and it has been waking me up every morning at dawn. But I never remember the split second before the smash-up. I do not know what I am riding,…
In times of crisis, people often look to religion for answers. But what happens when that crisis closes houses of worship from coast to coast, and from Hawaii to Puerto Rico? Well, then the mountain comes to Muhammad, so to…
Detail. Detail, detail, and more documented detail. Peter Schweizer has written one best-selling book after another, in which the central focus of his ongoing war on political corruption is seriously documented detail. Past books such as Clinton Cash: The Untold…