On the afternoon of the New Hampshire primary, I had a political epiphany of sorts while standing in line at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco waiting for a prescription to be filled. In front of me, a middle-aged woman in a sensible pantsuit was soothing her rattled,...

When two firefighters died on August 18 in a fire at the Deutsche Bank building by Ground Zero and, a few days later, two more were badly injured when a forklift plummeted 200 feet at the same building, America was once again treated to the spectacle of heroic effect...