RUDY GIULIANI’S ROAD RAGE
Rudy Giuliani has been an a vengeful press tour, starting with his (supposedly) impromptu remarks at a luncheon in which he said, “I do not believe the president loves America. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up
LEARNING FROM ALZHEIMER’S
I had a powerful teacher in my adult life — one who was uncompromising and harsh, one who reached into the depths of my being, my soul, and rearranged landscapes. One who taught me that what I saw with my
ON MY FATHER’S BIRTHDAY
104 years ago on this day a baby boy was born to a devoutly religious woman who believed in tithing even though she had little, and a good-natured Irishman with a drinking problem. That boy grew up to be my
GRACIE’S CONFESSION
Now that my memoir, The Wit and Wisdom of Gracie, has been out for a while, it has been pointed out to me that it’s missing something commonly seen in memoirs – confessions of scandalous exploits in my life. Apparently,
THE BLACK AND WHITE OF US
The police in South Florida who used the mugshots of black teens, taken years ago when the teens were arrested, didn’t see any problem in using the photos for target practice. They never considered that those boys are now men
NEW RULES FOR 2015
Now that we’re midway into the first month of the new year and many people are remembering why it’s usually a bad idea to make resolutions, since they tend to have a short shelf life, I think it’s a good
SONY, THE HACKERS, AND THE MOVIE
Now that people can see The Interview — which I think everyone agrees is a good thing, since retreating in the face of threats is never admirable — we can finally hear what the public thinks of the actual movie
THE RIVER OF MEMORY
This is an article I wrote for Life magazine in 2006 when it was a weekend supplement in many newspapers. I wrote it on the second anniversary of my father’s death. Someone on Twitter just asked me about it, and
DEAR SASHA AND MALIA
Dear Sasha and Malia, Here is a story you might find interesting given the latest unprovoked (and undeserved) attack on you by Elizabeth Lauten, who I, by the way, had never heard of before. When my father was president there