Maybe ballot security isn’t such a bad thing after all. Democrats, who the day before yesterday were insisting that voter fraud didn’t exist, now believe that it was used to steal a North Carolina congressional seat from them — and they may well be right. Republican Mark Harris has a 905-vote lead over Democrat Dan […]
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President wins battle with China over trade policies
WASHINGTON — “When you strike at a king you must kill him,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once said. Well, this year China tried to strike at President Trump for daring to launch a trade war with Beijing — and missed the mark entirely. After Trump imposed massive tariffs on Chinese goods earlier this year, Beijing responded […]
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Who is taking care of the caretaker?
I am employed by a local nursing home/residential care facility. The holiday season is upon us, and I can’t help but reflect on this year’s and years’ past struggles. As caregivers in today’s world, we are there because we want to be, not because we are paid to be. Local coffee brewers and store clerks […]
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U.S.-China showdown just beginning
By Josh Rogin The Washington Post The Chinese government is reportedly baffled about why the United States would ask Canada to arrest a high-ranking Chinese executive, escalating tensions only days after President Donald Trump agreed to a trade truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Argentina. Beijing hasn’t yet realized that, for the United States, […]
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Bush's vision of a kinder America has disappeared
On the last night of the Republican National Convention in 1988, the candidate sought to impart to the country a vision of the America it could be. “Some,” he said, “would say it’s soft and insufficiently tough to care” about troubled children. “But where is it written, that we must act as if we do […]
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We need to talk and listen without judgment
“You know what you should write about? You should write about how nasty everyone is. About how no one talks to anyone anymore.” My friend Tracy was tiring of the midterm election campaign, disgusted by the number and tone of campaign ads. I couldn’t disagree with her. The day before, I had received four large […]
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Some of Bush's WASP values are worth keeping
NEW YORK — The death of George H.W. Bush has occasioned a fair amount of nostalgia for the old American establishment, of which Bush was undoubtedly a prominent member. It has also provoked a heated debate among commentators about that establishment, whose membership was determined largely by bloodlines and connections. You had to be a […]
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Questions linger about Mexico's new president
On Dec. 1, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was inaugurated as president of Mexico. The new president now confronts Mexico’s supposedly intractable problems. Mexico’s problems are numerous. Some are merely frustrating, requiring patient bureaucratic workarounds that savvy Mexican citizens have polished as a skill set. Others, however, are morally, economically and institutionally draining, alienating the decent […]
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The climate issue — a bridge, not a wedge
Is it possible that Americans, conservative and liberal, are finding common ground in the effort to curb global warming? Are people of this nation finally ready to take aggressive measures to turn down the heat on this over-cooked planet? It appears so, based on an exciting bipartisan event that occurred recently in the U.S. House […]
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Earth's future being neglected in the present
An ad on ABC’s “Live with Kelly and Ryan” shows a little girl dragging a teddy bear to her mom at an elegant dinner table. The mother hugs her again and again. Then up pop the words: “You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You merely look after it for the next generation.” A Patek […]