Reform Gains; Reckoning for Trump? Clement Moore's Calling
Good morning, it’s Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, and 197 years ago today, Orville L. Holley, the publisher of a newspaper in upstate New York, printed a poem that launched a billion presents -- and forever altered American children’s expectations of Christmas morning. The paper was the Troy Sentinel, a semi-weekly that enjoyed only a brief nine-year run of solvency from 1823 to 1832. It would be long forgotten now except for the poem Holley published. It was originally called “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” although it would soon be known far and wide by a title taken from its first line. 'T...