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Elegy for the ideal restaurant
If I were asked to construct the ideal restaurant, I’d make sure it had the following crucial features: In the first place, there would be a long…
July 24, 2024
Trump, before and after: How a would-be assassin's bullet may have changed the former president, if not the race
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Dark-Land: A memoir hard to classify as anything but great
You don’t know me, reader, and I don’t know you. Nevertheless, I urge you to buy a copy of Kevin Hart’s Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood…
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Trumpism and JD Vance
Don’t believe the hype about Donald Trump. There is no personality reboot, no Trump 2.0. Appealing for “unity” at the party convention when the nomination is already…
Beltway Confidential
Chicago plays ‘Hide the Homeless’
It’s time to play “Hide the Homeless,” the Democratic Party game where you take homeless people you have allowed to camp in public and shove them into…
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Tales of the immigrant crime wave of the Jazz Age
Wearing a yellow skirt that reached just below her knees, a black and white shirt, and a sunbonnet, 15-year-old Amelia Staffeldt planned to pick dandelions. But after…
Beltway Confidential
JD Vance and the vice president elegy
I was not sold on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) when former President Donald Trump announced him as his running mate. I thought there were better choices available…
Beltway Confidential
The sad side of the city
MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention brought about 50,000 people to this city for a week in mid-July. But of those, only one columnist ended up at…
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Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928-2024
Sex-talk is not hard to find these days. There are more podcasts, YouTube channels, TED Talks, and TV series devoted to sex than you could consume in…