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Guest AuthorMay 15, 2016

For the past decade or more, Americans have heard this mournful tune: “The middle class is disappearing. Workers’ children will never be able to climb into the middle class. Without a strong middle class, our democracy will crumble.” And so on. All of which raises the question: just what is the middle class? How do you […]

Guest AuthorMay 11, 2016

Some people are born to greatness; others achieve it on their own; still others have it thrust upon them by fate. The rest of us just sit on the curb and cheer as the Big Boys and Girls march by to Valhalla, Cooperstown or wherever great folks go. That’s my customary reaction each year when […]

Guest AuthorMay 3, 2016

Six months remain until Election Day on Nov. 8. During this time, our beloved land and our frayed sensibilities will be assaulted by waves of political news, oratory, propaganda, lobbying, slogans, promises, distortions and outright lies. All of it is aimed at placing a solitary, vulnerable mortal into the most powerful and perhaps the loneliest […]

Guest AuthorApril 25, 2016

“Algebra I is the most critical course students take in high school, and the ultimate gateway to success in higher education.” Do you believe that statement? I don’t. That declaration was the lead sentence in a recent full-page advertisement by a company that sells DVDs and CDs aimed at lifting the intellects of Americans willing […]

Guest AuthorApril 5, 2016

If Donald Trump were standing at a urinal in a public restroom and a transgender male (who nevertheless retained the soft features of a woman) sidled up next to him, how would Mr. Trump react? Likewise, if Hillary Clinton entered a women’s restroom and noticed a husky, masculine-appearing but longhaired woman touching up her lipstick […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 15, 2016

The political columnist and humorist Art Buchwald has been dead for nine years. I still miss him. I enjoyed and admired his writing for many years, and envied him without shame as someone whose life (or much of it) I’d have gladly exchanged for my own — if such swaps were possible, which they’re not. […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 19, 2016

As we head into the semi-home stretch of the presidential campaign, I keep waiting for someone to put forth these questions: Are people who want to occupy the White House mentally stable? Why would anyone in his or her right mind wish to spend four years in a war zone? Don’t these candidates read the […]

Guest AuthorDecember 22, 2015

Donald Trump, who may very well become our next president, is being accused of Hitlerism. By the time this column appears, the charges may have been dismissed. Or confirmed. Whichever way it goes, it behooves all of us to think about Hitler and Trump, and how they compare. For younger readers and those who may […]

Tag: Bob Driver

Bob Driver: Just how middle class are you?

Bob Driver: Why am I not included on TIME’s list of most influential people?

Bob Driver: How to survive the election tsunami

Bob Driver: ‘You Need Algebra!’ Says Who?

Bob Driver: Public restrooms: Which one to choose?

Bob Driver: Memories of Art Buchwald

Bob Driver: The madness of presidential candidates

Bob Driver: Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump (a comparison)