After the presidential election, the tension in the nation has showed up everywhere — even in the local high school
There are stories from “Flyover Country” seldom heard by people who know these places only from 30,000 feet. These are letters from reporters who live and work there.
America woke on the morning after the presidential election feeling like a nation of strangers, as if we did not understand our countrymen, our neighbors, or even relatives and friends, after all.
In truth, this singularly divisive election was the culmination of years during…
Every writer has a story that he or she will tell one day. Not necessarily the memoir that will embarrass her family or the tome he’s not yet capable of pulling off, but the story that, with a little more time, he’d be able to finish right. It’s the daily to-do’s that draw out project timelines.
Nothing bad will come of this, Kelli thinks. This is for my children.
Lindsey Graham was looking into my eyes. He was talking in a soft Southern drawl, answering a question I had asked, and the room around us had emptied. Or had it? No…