I am not terribly proud of the fact that I have medicines stuffed into upstairs cabinets that go back to the Jurassic or maybe before and yesterday I found a real relic — a big jar half filled with Vaseline. The top of the big square jar with the dark blue top was thick with […]

One way of looking at, or down from, a flying drone is simply to imagine that you are 200 feet tall, with telescopic eyes. Fearsome creature, you. Some mix, perhaps, of sky and land god. I mention this possibility not as celebration of you — or me — but as a prod to our imaginations. […]

When I was a young journalist, the first lesson I learned was the distinction between news and opinion. Opinions were confined to the editorial pages. The news pages were for reporting the facts — and if we were doing our jobs, conveying the truth. It was a hard-won distinction. In the 19th century, newspapers that […]

On Nov. 5, the nation’s voters will select one of two futures: America or Trumperika. A round of “Jeopardy” might help undecided voters make their choice. Answer: A day of love. Question: How did Donald Trump describe the Jan. 6, 2020, riot. That’s right. That’s how the man who led the insurrection on the nation’s […]

This election is different. The polls say it will be decided by a handful of votes, but they could be flat wrong. The most responsible pollsters admit that they could be wrong, and that they may be following each other in a herd. Survey forecasts have become nothing more than conventional wisdom right now. Candidates […]