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David Moats

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David Moats is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

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  • People sometimes ask, “Why can’t the media just ignore the crazy tweets coming out of the White House?”The usual answer is that it’s the president of the…
  • Times change - but how they change is a mysterious process.The Sixties were something we think we recognize, but the enormity of the changes that happened…
  • A recent family gathering drove home the point that families — for all that holds them together — consist of a whole array of seemingly mismatched parts,…
  • Most people would agree that empathy is a good thing — the ability to see things from another point of view, to put yourself in another’s shoes, to listen…
  • As soon as the smoke had cleared in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, the cry went up - how could such a rampage, claiming 17 lives, finally be…
  • When I was in college my parents moved to Hawaii, and during that time they arranged for the daughter of friends to rendezvous there with her boyfriend.…
  • Republicans students at Middlebury College are unhappy about what they see as the lenient discipline administered to students who disrupted a speech…
  • There's a phrase from sports that has always been intriguing to me: People say something is or isn't “in the interest of baseball.” The word “baseball,”…
  • My mother turned 100 years old recently, though we weren’t sure whether she was aware of it. She’s comfortable and well taken care of, but each new day is…