Author: shaun

     If you weren’t coming home in a pine box or wheelchair from Vietnam, the year 1968 was tremendously exciting, and among the waves of change roiling American society none was quite as dramatic as Eugene...

     Asked to name my all-time favorite Grateful Dead show, I typically respond, “Which year?”     “No, which show?”     “Okay, how about May 8, 1977 in Hamilton,...

    There were 15 or so of us gathered around the large conference room table.  It was a brilliantly sunny afternoon in the fall of 1996 and the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board was conducting yet another...

    Official Washington ramped up its pushback against investigative reporter Seymour Hersh’s recent exposé​ with the release this week of nearly 80 previously classified documents and books and other...

This correspondent abhors violence in any form, let alone what is happening on the streets of Baltimore.  But he concludes that civil unrest may be the only way to provoke meaningful and lasting police reform, including an...