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Some of the strangest people I talked to were senior citizens, and through those interactions I learned that aging and retired people are incredibly friendly to total strangers. They’d gladly invite me into their homes, reminisce about arguments they used to have with their union...
So this summer I learned that I like to talk to crazy people about politics. Eccentricity isn’t just interesting, it also turns the engines of democracy. My favorite conversation was with a man who gave me a lovely, stirring, and totally unsolicited one...
The difficulty for Latham, so far, is that he hasn't fully learned the politician's slippery art of feigning interest when he's in unfamiliar territory; he's transparent, whether cranky or bored. In Tasmania's old-growth forests with Greens leader Bob Brown earlier in the year, Latham...
From my summer working at the Republican National Convention (RNC), I learned, among many other valuable truths, that Republicans sweat the details. From balloons that fell at the right time to a round stage that drove a news cycle, the organizers of the RNC spoke to mainstream America with expertise...
Houck knows how much a group like this can mean to someone. After he decided on Dec. 12, 1934, that he would never drink alcohol again, he made restitution with his wife and others he had harmed. "I started telling my wife what kind of a fellow I was," he...