To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, June 13, 2025

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Now Trump Cuts Close To Home

By Jamie Stiehm

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Let me count the ways. Donald Trump excels at broadsides against bright places and people that burnish our world. But now, it’s getting personal. Trump is stealing what I hold dear. I’m not even speaking of press freedom or his suing CBS News, where I loved my first job. I mean the Library of Congress and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Trump fired the librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, and the Kennedy […]

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Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm is a Washington journalist and public speaker who writes a syndicated column on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in leading newspapers across the nation, such as American Heritage, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle. She wrote several essays for The New York Times’ “Disunion” series on the Civil War, one of which, The War Comes Home for Lee, was chosen for their hardbound collection, Disunion, published by Oxford University Press [2016].

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