New Quad-ear's Resolutions for the day after Election Day
COMMENTARY
In America, the calendar is not really 365 days long, nor does it begin on Jan. 1 — not always. The other calendar begins on Nov. 5, New Quad-ear's Day. Quad-ear is a contraction of "quadruple" and "year," the four-year period between one presidential election and the next. Full Story
The miracle of plenty
OPINION
To what do we owe our 20-pound Butterball turkeys, our high-definition TVs, our spacious and warm homes this Thanksgiving? Something that won't be high on anyone's list of things to be grateful for, but undergirds our way of life — a centuries-old economic revolution that changed the very terms of human existence. Full Story
Shoring up the bedrock
Now that this historic campaign has come to its close and we know the next president, festering uncertainties about the sanctity of the vote mean that the American people stand to lose. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
• On Nov. 5, 1930, Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1926, he turned down the Pulitzer Prize awarded him, but in 1930 decided to accept Sweden's Nobel Prize. • On Nov. 6, 1984, the New York Stock Exchange decided to keep its doors open on a presidential election day for the first time in 193 years. Full Story
Matter of the heart
MUSINGS
An inchoate voice spills out of the depths of me. I want you to feel it. It is too low pitched for human ear hearing. It rumbles between ground and air like an incipient storm. There is nothing visible. I want it to matter to you. Full Story
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