Trump touts a potential agreement with Iran

President Trump said Saturday on social media that an agreement between the U.S. and Iran “has been largely negotiated” after weeks of diplomacy. However, some Republicans have warned Mr. Trump that Iran can’t be trusted. Robert Costa has the latest. Original CBS News Link

American Odyssey

To historian Craig Fehrman the 8,000-mile expedition (1804-06) indelibly associated with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark is nothing less than “our national Odyssey.” To this TCM junkie their epic crossing of the continent suggests a road picture with more perils than Pauline and more plot twists than anything starring Hope and Crosby. Fehrman spent five

Less Choice, More Happiness

Fifteen years ago, when my older children were in preschool at our synagogue, I participated in a focus group. The synagogue’s leadership wanted to understand why they were having trouble getting young families to attend services and become members—even if their kids were enrolled—and also why, once their kids finished preschool, the families didn’t come

All Roads Lead to Rome

The Catholic Church saw incredible growth in the United States this past year, especially among young people (men, in particular). If you’re tuned into the online discourse about this trend, you’ll be familiar with the tradition-oriented, conservative kind of Catholic who might look down his nose at new, inexperienced converts or those who aren’t as

Leaving Stones Unturned

Bob Spitz has compiled a press-cuttings history of the Rolling Stones. Like much of their music, it is hacked together from other people’s work, though Spitz at least gives attribution. The Rolling Stones is conventional rockographical stuff: a heroic legend, sensibly frontloaded. The first 350 of Spitz’s 600 pages carry the band from postwar English