The Travails of Trump, sort of like the Perils of Pauline, just keep coming like the fifteenth installment of a bad movie sequel. The indictments, the guilty pleas, the conviction (I write that in the singular even though I think we all know there will be more to come in short order) – and now the New York Times anonymous editorial and the White House Inquisition complete with polygraphs, all tell the story of a presidency under attack from nearly all sides. So as I rub my h

No, this isn’t about wings all aflutter and a hurricane on the other side of the planet. This is about the side of the planet we’re all on – our own – and how, in the scheme of the great tide of history, so much has happened in such a relatively short time. I think we forget that, caught up as we are in all our thunderous self-importance. It’s only been ninety-eight some years since women in America got the right to vote, and only another handful of years before that for Bl