The traditional idea of three stages of life learning, earning and retiring is increasingly seen as outdated. Instead, many people like Tom Andrew are living their third act, discovering that life can reset at age 50, 60, 70, or even later.
Americans of different races, creeds, generations, religions, geography, and political affiliation have always differed in their perceptions of politics and culture. But having a baseline set of shared facts turns out to be important. Political parties deliberately skew those facts for their own purposes. However, when journalists repeat those partisan narratives word for word or, worse, amplify them they are interfering with the prime directive.
Republican Sen. John McCain, a war hero who suffered five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison camp in Vietnam, and who became an independent, influential senator, has died at 81. The New York Times obituary was broadly admiring. But the Times hasn’t always treated Sen. McCain so respectfully. Look back to the 2008 campaign. Reporters suggestied McCain was too old or even constitutionally ineligible for office, a “warmonger” with “hints of racism,” who may have had an affair with a lobbyist and who spread vicious anti-Obama falsehoods on the campaign trail.
The stamp features a photograph by Marco Grob of Lewis wearing a suit against a dark gray background and staring resolutely at the viewer with a firm, piercing gaze.