Oct 30, 2022
In the spring of 1865, a woman named Frances Seward collapsed and died. She couldn’t cope with the trauma of having witnessed what had happened on the night of April 14, when a Confederate terrorist invaded her home and stabbed her husband – Secretary of...
Oct 29, 2022
By Chris Satullo Three recent moments of everyday life that spurred me to think semi-deep political thoughts: 1) My wife and I strolled up to the Eastern States Penitentiary in Philadelphia’s Fairmount section the other day to deposit our mail-in ballots for the...
Oct 28, 2022
With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, check out these stats: According to a new poll sponsored by the Public Religion Research Institute, 67 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of white evangelicals say that our “American culture and way of...
Oct 26, 2022
When I was a kid I’d sometimes cover my eyes or ears during scary movies. I did it again last night, for as long as I could bear it. About the Pennsylvania Senate debate – with the fate of the Senate itself hanging in the balance – perhaps the less...
Oct 25, 2022
The midterm polls tell us that millions of Americans care not a whit about the slow death of democracy, that what apparently matters most is inflation (a global woe that’s far worse elsewhere). But if our imperiled institutional health truly takes a back seat to...
