The AmericasNovember 29, 2016Just apples in the produce aisle, lots of potholes and government snooping. My Cuba sojournExactly a year ago I traveled to Havana to visit a Cuban friend.
Proud AmericanOctober 24, 2016Tom Hayden's special place in the imagination of baby boomers (especially men)I'll never forget the day I learned that Tom Hayden had married Jane Fonda.
ValuesOctober 13, 2016Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize in literature: Watching an unpredictable master at workIt’s pretty rare to see a Nobel Prize winning writer at work, but I’ve had that experience twice. I’m talking about this year’s laureate for literature, Bob Dylan.
Middle EastSeptember 30, 2016The big takeaway from Shimon Peres' grand sendoffThe funeral of Shimon Peres was exactly the kind of grand sendoff that he, himself, himself would have appreciated.
ELECTIONSSeptember 15, 2016Here’s what it will take for Hillary to politically recover from pneumoniaUnfairly or not, on the subject of her health the burden of proof is on Hillary.
ELECTIONSSeptember 9, 2016Hillary finally talked with the press this week. And after more than 270 days most of the questions were really lameFor more than nine months, Hillary Clinton kept the press corps on a starvation diet of campaign releases, second-hand twitter remarks, surrogates, televised commercials and public speeches.
Democratic ConventionJuly 30, 2016Female ascendency in America didn't happen overnight, but it was clearly visible in PhillyHillary Clinton is now the leader of a Democratic Party whose power—real and symbolic—has largely passed into the hands of women.
Republican ConventionJuly 21, 2016The rules don’t apply to Trump. And it's true for his convention speech, tooThe collective wisdom of the political class is that Donald Trump’s acceptance speech tomorrow night in Cleveland is crucial to his candidacy.
Dallas ShootingJuly 15, 2016What a real conversation on race requires (no, we haven't had one yet)On Tuesday, in Dallas, at the memorial service for the five white cops murdered by a black gunman, President Obama delivered a graceful and eloquent meditation on race relations in America.
ELECTIONSJuly 7, 2016Trump and Hillary’s athletic supporters and the political conventionsIt looks like Mike Tyson isn’t going to be addressing the Republican National Convention this year. And that’s a good thing.