Ehlers on Everything

A collection of personal essays, musings, and questions about life, history, politics, religion and baseball.

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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...
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...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Politics with a Moral Conscience

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Texas State Rep. James Talarico on the Ezra Klein Show What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States ...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

The Trump Doctrine: We Can Take Anything We Want

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(Attribution: Times of India) Call it gunboat diplomacy. Call it imperialism. Call it bullying a weaker country within our “sphere of influe...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

On the Lost Art of Letter Writing

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The First Snow of Winter, December 14, 2025 “Time moves slowly but passes quickly.” These words by Alice Walker are ever so prescient the ol...
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