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Even more gratitude

I was feeling pretty low when I lost my day-job last month. I wasn’t all that hopeful either. No matter what sort of writing I had done over the last 20 years, I’ve always maintained a steady income. Hope returned after I asked you for help. There was an overwhelming response. About 50 people became…

Yes, public hearings moved the needle

Politico reports today that impeachment hearings didn’t do much to hurt the president’s standing among Republicans. While this is true, it’s not the whole truth, and reporters ought to know better. Support for impeachment is now at 50 percent, per Politico and Morning Consult. That’s three points higher than last week. Three points isn’t a…

A Russian novel’s worth of characters

I worried today’s Editorial Board would be so packed with names that people would stop reading after the third paragraph. I suppose that’s the risk I took in deciding to write about an actual criminal conspiracy involving the leaders of two countries and a Russian novel’s worth of minor characters. Even so, I still worried,…