Tom Marberger
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- Sep 21, 2026
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- Sep 13, 2026
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How the Other Half Lives (opens the original)
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The Gilded Age is my favorite period of American history. It has colorful politicians — Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall; it has the robber barons (or, if you prefer, industrial statesmen) Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie; it has reformers Jacob Riis and Theodore Roosevelt; it has social critics Frank Norris (The Octopus) and Upton Sinclair (The Jungle); it has its muckraking journalists, Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell; it has the Populist Party making its heroic stand
A City Upon a Hill (opens the original)
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Nearly four hundred years ago, before ever setting foot on American soil, John Winthrop penned one of the most famous, oft quoted visions of what this new world might be. He wrote, “That we shall be seen as a city upon a hill.” Many Americans, from prominent politicians in both major parties to ordinary citizens like me, have found “the city upon a hill” to be an inspirational proclamation of America’s unique opportunity to begin the world anew and to offer a shining example of freedom, hope, an
The True Meaning of Public Service (opens the original)
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For a number of years the American political right has warned us about a hidden network of unelected government workers and others from the military and intelligence agencies who are imbedded in our government and secretly control national policy and, more specifically, seek to block the conservative political agenda. Mostly the people the right calls the deep state are unelected civil service workers (aka bureaucrats) who go to work every day in agencies like the FBI, the IRS, and the Bureau of
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times (opens the original)
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Some are calling it the GOP midterm convention; others are calling it the Trump-a-palooza. I prefer to call it the theater of the absurd. Whatever term you choose to call the Republican gathering last week in Texas, “The world will little note, nor long remember what [was said there].” (With apologies to Abe Lincoln.) The little I watched of the event on the morning news was remarkable only in its detachment from reality. Other than the stock market and the price of eggs, in just about every oth
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