http://www.post-gazette.com/ 2013-05-19T00:12:25-04:00 The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/crossing-sacred-lines-in-washington-688215/ 2013-05-19T00:12:21-04:00 2013-05-19T00:00:00-04:00

Any presidential administration should know better than to mess with the press or the IRS.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/held-hostage-by-ronald-reagan-687232/ 2013-05-12T00:03:47-04:00 2013-05-12T00:00:00-04:00

Republicans must keep faith with Reagan while redefining Reaganism for the future.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/the-limited-power-of-presidents-686348/ 2013-05-05T00:14:21-04:00 2013-05-05T00:00:00-04:00

They all come to learn that they can't strong-arm Congress into doing anything.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/a-gathering-of-presidents-685336/ 2013-04-28T00:12:17-04:00 2013-04-28T00:00:00-04:00

At the opening of the George W. Bush library, decades of living history were on display.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/social-security-21st-century-style-684410/ 2013-04-21T00:22:42-04:00 2013-04-21T00:00:00-04:00

Democrats call Obama a traitor, but the retirement system must be made more sustainable.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/49-years-four-months-25-days-todays-america-is-as-far-removed-from-jfks-era-as-his-was-from-world-war-i-683376/ 2013-04-14T00:41:39-04:00 2013-04-14T00:00:00-04:00

Tuesday is a day that will be marked by no one, and yet it is freighted with history ...

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/the-senate-as-it-once-was-682394/ 2013-04-07T00:04:49-04:00 2013-04-07T00:00:00-04:00

It used to be a widely revered institution of giants -- one that got things done.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/connections-and-coincidence-history-is-full-of-mysterious-relationships-including-clusters-of-greatness-681508/ 2013-03-31T00:03:12-04:00 2013-03-31T00:00:00-04:00

In olden times, when people wrote on paper and employed postage stamps, letters created unlikely connections ...

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/where-portraits-tell-the-story-of-americas-greatest-conflict-680631/ 2013-03-24T00:16:54-04:00 2013-03-24T00:00:00-04:00

The Civil War was caught on camera, but paintings from the era speak to us still.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/on-loss-and-the-lost-art-of-letter-writing-679684/ 2013-03-17T00:23:41-04:00 2013-03-17T00:00:00-04:00

He was getting older, he worried about losing his balance fishing on the end rocks, and his hearing was failing him.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/salvaged-by-stupidity-a-possible-solution-from-the-sequester-678712/ 2013-03-10T00:28:18-05:00 2013-03-10T00:00:00-05:00

Can this outrageous spectacle lead to a rational resolution on the budget? A nation can dream, can't it?

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/we-should-all-celebrate-aldo-leopold-poet-laureate-of-the-environmental-movement-677663/ 2013-03-03T00:10:59-05:00 2013-03-03T00:00:00-05:00

The U.S. Forest Service supervisor, Wisconsin professor and author of "Sand County Almanac" helped teach us the cost of civilization.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/david-shribman/the-best-bipartisan-project-overhaul-the-tax-system-676707/ 2013-02-24T00:30:27-05:00 2013-02-24T00:00:00-05:00

This may be the one big thing Democrats and Republicans can actually agree on.