Building on Declaration of Independence

WASHINGTON – In the next several days, Simon & Schuster will bring forth a little book, 7 inches tall and 5 inches wide, that should shake the country. It is called “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written,” and in its mere 67 pages, the author Walter Isaacson reminds us in a torrid time about the enduring values that define a troubled country.

The massacres in Nigeria continue

The Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo had every reason to be emotional as he stood in a shallow grave containing the corpses of 11 members of his Church of Christ in Nations congregation in Rachas village, located in central Nigeria.

The many contradictions of Trump

What to make of Donald Trump now? What to make of a president who powered a Middle East peace agreement that eluded Egypt, Qatar and France; who won an accord that matches and perhaps exceeds that of Jimmy Carter with Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat (1979) and Bill Clinton with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat (1993) – and who has dispatched federal troops to cities in his own country, used a government shutdown to fire federal workers and redefined the extent of executive power?

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