by Eric Tanenblatt | Dec 7, 2018 | The Forum
George Herbert Walker Bush, whose careful custodianship of the unraveling of the old Soviet Union shaped a safer world for hundreds of millions, was mourned by a grateful nation Wednesday in a state funeral that brought together Republicans and Democrats in an...
by Eric Tanenblatt | Jul 19, 2018 | The Forum
The days of the internal combustion engine are numbered, but you wouldn’t know it standing in the shadow of the Gold Dome, where the constant tension of balancing budgets with policy priorities may inadvertently delay the most significant evolutionary...
by Eric Tanenblatt | Apr 24, 2018 | The Forum
More than 1,500 mourners filled the pews at Houston’s St. Martin’s Episcopal Church on Saturday to celebrate the life of Barbara Bush as the former first lady was laid to rest. Like so many whose lives were shaped by her fiery spirit or her work in literacy,...
by Eric Tanenblatt | Nov 3, 2017 | The Forum
It’s been half a century since Atlanta, the birthplace of the American civil rights movement, last elected a white mayor. But the trend, threatened by a dramatic reshuffling of local demographics amid a surge of younger, white voters to the capital city’s urban...
by Eric Tanenblatt | Dec 1, 2016 | The Forum
As an outsider, they said he couldn’t win his party’s nomination against mainline, monied rivals. As a political renegade, they said he couldn’t create a winning general election coalition. He was said to have retrograde views, wanting to...
