Jackie Kennedy Onassis once said, "If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life." Even though it's my sixth book that was published last week, I still feel I've done something wonderful. Why? Because my first five books were fiction, and "The Raffel Ticket: ...
Rahm Emanuel wants to take leadership of the Democratic Party and capture its nomination for president in 2028. He shares his thoughts in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. It's the first time a Democrat has made me smile since President Bill Clinton announced in his 1996 State of the Union ...
Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to "the voice of God," the phrase once associated with legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite at the height of broadcast news. This makes it ...
For most folks, Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season. For me, growing up in a Catholic family, the holiday season usually began a couple of days later ... on the first Sunday of Advent. For the unfamiliar, Advent, from the latin adventus, meaning "coming" is the four Sundays ...
Before the House and Senate voted nearly unanimously — with just one "nay" in the House — to unseal the Epstein investigative records, the Epstein estate released 20,000 pages of unseen Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee. Following that, Democrats began their tour of publicizing ...
Several of you responded to my "Sunday thought" by saying that the first step out of the mess we're in is to get rid of the Supreme Court's bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that corporations are people — entitled to the same First Amendment ...