I have a coffee cup on my desk that I bought some years ago at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. It illustrated one of the Four Freedoms that President Franklin D. Roosevelt noted were essential to America’s democracy. They were freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom to worship God in your own […]

We need effective hospital regulation to rein in how much we spend on health care.

Back in February, Rep. Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat, stood up for his friend, Rep. Mark Meadows, a white Republican. Members of Congress were fielding the testimony of President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, when Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, accused Meadows of racism for trotting out a female black Trump appointee as a […]

The columnist suggests a series of books from local authors.

There must have been a point in the Robert Mueller hearings when the big thinkers of CNN and MSNBC curled up on the floor in fetal positions and began breathing into brown paper bags, trying to remain calm. Breathe. Collusion. Breathe. “Did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime.” Breathe. […]