Jess Lahitou

Dear Mr. Morgan,

This last Friday happened to be the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

Maybe you’re an aspiring novelist, or maybe you know one.

All this means that, for the first time since 1992, a third-party candidate has a very strong chance of impacting election results. And if something truly wild were to happen (say, no candidate broke the 270-electoral vote mark needed to win the presidency), then there’s an outside chance that a third-party could actually win the White House.

Perhaps you’ve noticed that Democrats and Republicans aren’t getting along so well these days.

So I don’t approve, in general, of how my generation tends to come at things, with the focus on: me, my experience, my

Bipartisanship is a rare bird.

Everyone but Michael Moore underestimated the level of economic angst and cultural upheaval occurring in the Rust Belt, that collection of states forming a sloped capital “E” along the Great Lakes: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania.

As Tom Nichols puts it, ignorance has now become a "virtue." And it takes a whole lot of it to claim you can learn 'everything' about a complex subject - like, say, nuclear weapons - in roughly 90 minutes.

It is a rare day when a Congressional committee garners tabloid-like coverage, but Thursday was one of those days.