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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Are We Outsourcing Humanity?

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Image created by artificial intelligence (Google Gemini) When it comes to technology, I am frequently behind the times. To say I am a Luddit...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

Profiles in Courage and Heroism in the DRC

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Dr. Richard Lokuda, Director of Mongbwalu General Hospital (Photo: Arlette Bashizi, New York Times) Great journalism does not simply report ...
Friday, May 22, 2026

The Power of Words and Duty to Country

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Richard Goodwin (left), Jack Valenti, and President Johnson January 12, 1966 (The White House/AP Photo) Richard Goodwin, who was among the m...
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Monday, April 20, 2026

On God and Baseball

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The Cathedral of St. Louis (Busch Stadium for the uninitiated) Like Annie in the movie Bull Durham , I believe in the Church of Baseball. Re...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

The Death of a Great American Newspaper

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I began reading The Washington Post in the summer of 1982 when I moved to Washington, D.C., to attend law school. Ben Bradlee was then Exec...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

And Then Someday Was Yesterday

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Around nineteen years ago, on a springlike day in early March, my daughter Jen, as part of a high school photography project, accompanied ...
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Friday, February 6, 2026

The First Rough Draft of History from Berlin: Appreciating Sigrid Schultz

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Sigrid Schultz, Chicago Tribune reporter in pre-War Berlin Speaking with a group of foreign correspondents in London in 1963, Philip L. Gra...