My uncle, the eminent sculptor Theodore Roszak, offered a cheeky play on the Great Seal of the United States, presciently anticipating the president’s restoration of the Department of War and effort to change the Great Seal.
Dwight Eisenhower
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How Will Biden Pass the Baton at the Democratic Convention?
How Will Biden Pass the Baton at the Democratic Convention? I helped write Bill Clinton’s 2000 convention speech for Al Gore. Here’s how the president can make his ode to Harris sing.
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How the Vietnam War Came Between Two Friends and Diplomats
Charles Trueheart’s account of his father’s battles with a once-close fellow Foreign Service officer in Saigon illuminates the American tragedy in Southeast Asia—and should be considered one of the finest accounts of the war.
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Birch of a NationÂ
How a group of conspiratorial far-right business tycoons in the 1950s and ‘60s helped lay the groundwork for the MAGA movement decades later.
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Don’t Run Joe. Second Terms Suck.
A pundit pleads with the president: You’re better off not running.
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Nobody Cares Who Lost Afghanistan
The fall of Kabul is a tragedy. It’s not a political liability for Joe Biden.
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Don’t Count Out An Infrastructure Bill Just Yet
History shows bipartisan negotiations over transportation legislation never moves quickly.
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What’s Wrong With One-Term Presidents?
Leave aside Donald Trump. For swaths of American history presidents being reelected was unusual. Maybe that’s not so bad.
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It’s 1953 All Over Again
It’s not 1968 we’re living through again. It’s much more like 1953.
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What if Senators Murkowski and Collins Defected?
Could Trump’s threats lose the GOP their Senate majority?
