Armistice Day Plus 90

Orange High School Concert Choir at Veteran’s Day ceremonies at the Nixon Library Today, Veterans Day, was originally established as a holiday to mark the day that World War I ended and, until 1954, went by the name Armistice Day. Ninety years have passed since...

Art Imitates Life

In honor of Veterans Day, New York Times film critic A. O. Scott devotes this week’s “Critic’s Choice” to Franklin N. Schaffner’s 1970 masterpiece Patton. The film won seven Academy Awards — including the Best Actor Oscar for George...

A POTUS And FLOTUS By Any Other Name

In the days before communications could be encrypted, code names were required to provide at least a minimal mask for the identity of the POTUS and FLOTUS and members of the first families.  Now they’re mostly an anachronistic habit with no serious security...