by Jack Moline | Sep 11, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
A long time ago, I had an argument with a friend who worked in the president’s administration. The federal government’s public assistance program was undergoing one of its cyclical reevaluations, and a proposal had gained some currency that required recipients without...
by Jack Moline | Aug 7, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
A few years ago, my friend Peter Maer called me with a request. Peter had a very successful career as a journalist for CBS Radio and he knows an important story when he hears it. He had gotten to know the guy he hired to do some work on his house in Northern Virginia....
by Jack Moline | Jul 22, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
It’s the big laugh line in a sardonically hysterical song— “National Brotherhood Week.” Tom Lehrer satirizes the artifice constructed and later abandoned to pretend we can all just get along. Rich and poor, Black and White, New Yorkers and Puerto Ricans are all at...
by Jack Moline | Jun 21, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
I asked my sons-in-law how they find new music. When I was much younger, the radio was always on in the background while driving, studying or just hanging out. But as different things demanded my attention, I spent more and more time listening to the news in the car,...
by Jack Moline | May 20, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
I am afraid of poetry. I was never bitten by an iambic pentameter or terrorized by a sonnet. However, I am as bad at identifying good poetry as I am at filling out my brackets for March Madness. (This year I was out of teams before the Sweet Sixteen.) So, I mostly...
