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Tag …You’re It—Playing Games in Congress
Remember playing this childhood game with friends?
A small group of boys and girls would get together and designate one person as IT—and then scatter...
State of Chaos—Gun violence stains U.S.
“Who is the slayer, who the victim? Speak.” —Sophocles
Please don’t respond again with the outworn phrase, “This is not who we are.” This is...
Open Mic: Reluctant Warrior Collin Powell, 1937-2021
By E.G. Singer
“Reluctant warrior” was the phrase Colin Powell used to describe himself when it came to the various positions he occupied over...
The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
“The Texas state motto, begun in 1930, is ‘friendship.’ The motto, purportedly chosen because the name of Texas or Tejas was the Spanish pronunciation...
Open Mic: Remembering Justice Ginsburg
There has been much biographical and historical content written about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg over the last 25 years;...
Open Mic: America boils over
The boiling frog is a fable describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is...
Open Mic: Remembering Carl Reiner
“Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”
This quote is purported to have been spoken by an...
‘Them Belly Full’
“Them belly full, but we hungry / A hungry mob is an angry mob”
Those opening lines are from a 1974 song by reggae musician,...
