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GOP can look back to 1968 for lessons on 2024
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
December 11, 2022
Parties fall apart; the center cannot hold. (We’ve sure seen that.) Mere anarchy is loosed upon the political world. (Have a look at the morning paper...
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What’s 1959 got to do with it?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
November 6, 2022
The election is only days away, the country is in a funk, talk about the decline of democracy is in the air. If nothing else, the toxic mixture of thi...
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2024: A search for America’s future
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
July 29, 2022
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Is this the time to look to the past for a reason not to be stuck in the past? Is this the time to look to 1940, and then to 1945...
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History-makers through Karsh’s lens
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
July 10, 2022
MONTREAL — Winston Churchill, determined. Albert Einstein, ethereal. Eleanor Roosevelt, engaging. Andy Warhol, whimsical. Pablo Picasso, intense. Geor...
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Inflation inflates problems for the Democrats
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
July 4, 2022
WAUSAU, Wis. — The reminder, every time they drive down the street, of how high gasoline prices are. The delays in home construction and renovation be...
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America’s looking for fresh programming
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
April 3, 2022
Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams did it. So did Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison. Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, too. Also Wil...
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Starting wars is easy; challenge lies in ending them
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
March 27, 2022
If Winston Churchill were here — and some of us saw him, or his latest incarnation, this month, addressing the U.S. Congress on the plight of his bele...
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On youth and politics
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
December 9, 2021
The death of former Sen. Bob Dole at age 98 — a full quarter-century after he was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee — inevitably raises...
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The way we were in 2001
Local Columnists, Nation World
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
September 7, 2021
On that day 20 years ago this week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war on Pentagon bureaucracy, saying that it was a threat to national...
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