Why we must focus now on maintaining democracy, civility and perspective
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ERA that has just ended, I watched Bill Clinton give a pretty good speech in Chicago. Afterward, we talked about it—I was his traveling press corps that evening, and George Stephanopoulos was his entire staff. I had a strange itch of an idea: “Why don’t you ever congratulate the American people for winning the Cold War? Why don’t you thank them for their patience and sacrifice—the taxes paid,
