Shribman: Two candidates, mired in the past
David M. Shribman One candidate worried about the country being a “house divided” by slavery but saw a future where “it will cease to be divided.”... Read more.
Shribman: But for Mrs. Sweeney, D-Day might have stood for ‘disaster’
David M. Shribman Now, as we approach the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that began the liberation of Europe from Nazi control, let us praise an obscure... Read more.
Shribman: On Memorial Day, don’t forget the rescuers
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Monday is Memorial Day. Wednesday would have been John F. Kennedy’s 107th birthday. More than eight decades ago this month, an American... Read more.
Shribman: Candidates’ perspectives are warped by time
Is the United States in a Chevalier de Panat moment? It was the obscure French nobleman who said that “the Bourbons have learned nothing and forgotten nothing”... Read more.
News fatigue is a real thing
The conviction of the Democrats: The tawdry details of Donald Trump’s private life that are emerging from his New York trial involving $130,000 in hush money... Read more.
Shribman: There’s nothing biblical about Trump cozying up to DeSantis
VERO BEACH, Fla. — The lion has lain down with the lamb. The lion, of course, is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a former president himself, now... Read more.
Shribman: Mike Johnson seizes the moment
David M. Shribman “Necessity is the mother of invention” (probably Plato). “I have seen the future and it works” (Lincoln Steffens). “Behold,... Read more.
Shribman: Legendary popovers are only twice the story
SWAMPSCOTT — In those black-and-white days, so long ago, my high school classmates Cindy Smith, Cheryl Gordon, and Jan Schwartz were popover girls, circulating... Read more.
Shribman: The bygone humanity of presidents
David M. Shribman We may not be looking forward to the November election — the polls tell us that — but this is not a country that likes to look back. Yet at... Read more.
Shribman: America should heed this warning from the north
Once again, a lesson from across the border. Not universal health care; the Canadian system is a disaster and access to a family doctor is as elusive as a Stanley... Read more.