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Past articles by Dan:

Dan K. Thomasson: Can Kelly (or next Chief of Staff) keep up with Trump?

WASHIINGTON — The most important position in the nation that exists outside the Oval Office is the Chief of Staff of the White House. He is the gray eminence, the man from whom the president depends on a last word, the man who must hold the delicate machine together. The Chief of Staff must be … → Read More

Thomasson: Not even Hoover could have cleaned up this FBI mess

WASHINGTON | For decades after 1924 the ominous shadow of J. Edgar Hoover loomed almost menacingly over the Federal Government, from Capitol Hill to the White House. The persnickety, demanding young lawyer who had been given charge of an ineffectual, lethargic Bureau of Investigation in the Justice Department was determined to build the premier law enforcement agency in the country. → Read More

Thomasson: Sessions has a long way to go to win over African-Americans

WASHINGTON | Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a Martin Luther King Jr. Day address that touched on the aspects of his own Old South life when he witnessed so much “unvarnished discrimination” against people of color that he realized there was no such thing as separate but equal. → Read More

Thomasson: Could Romney KO Trump in Year of the Feud?

WASHINGTON | This could be the Year of the Feud. → Read More

Dan K. Thomasson: ‘The Post’ retells story of legendary First Amendment fight

WASHINGTON — The moment really belonged to the New York Times. But somehow, the Washington Post keeps receiving the honors for saving the nation’s free press and the constitutional declaration that protects it — the First Amendment. It was the Times that first printed the Pentagon Papers, having received them from Daniel Ellsberg, a reformed … → Read More

‘The Post’ retells story of legendary First Amendment fight

The moment really belonged to the New York Times. But somehow, the Washington Post keeps receiving the honors for saving the nation’s free press and the constitutional declaration that protects it – the First Amendment. → Read More

Dan K. Thomasson: Times have changed, for politicians and for the press

WASHINGTON — Back in the ‘70s I was attending an annual editor’s meeting when I was asked in a confidential session what I was working on. At the time I was a managing editor for investigations for Scripps Howard Newspapers. I replied that I didn’t feel comfortable with providing many details at that point but … → Read More

Thomasson: It’s always been our duty to report the truth. So why’d it take so long?

Back in the ’70s I was attending an annual editors’ meeting when I was asked in a confidential session what I was working on. → Read More

Dan K. Thomasson: NCAA money machine keeps humming along

WASHINGTON — With America’s elite college football teams closing in on the playoffs to determine a national champion and a new race to basketball’s March Madness about to begin, the burning question might be (actually is) who is in charge of the keeping the huge fortune the two events produce out of the hands of … → Read More

Thomasson: NCAA money machine keeps humming along

WASHINGTON | With America’s elite college football teams closing in on the playoffs to determine a national champion and a new race to basketball’s March Madness beginning, the burning question is who is in charge of the keeping the huge fortune the two events produce out of the hands of cheaters? → Read More

Dan K. Thomasson: Some free advice for Donald Trump

WASHINGTON — To Donald Trump: As one who spent nearly two years of his life as a journalist focused on Watergate, I have one piece of advice. Your best course is not to in any way disrupt or attack Robert Mueller personally as some around you undoubtedly may have counseled and no matter your own … → Read More

Dan K. Thomasson: Post, ‘60 Minutes’ expose proves again the power of mainstream media

WASHINGTON — When it comes to bringing down the bad guys in government, America’s newspaper presses are still rolling and, when linked with the power of the national camera, their impact can still be lethally quick. Few recent stories better prove that the death of American newspapers has been prematurely exaggerated than an expose this … → Read More

Thomasson: Post, ‘60 Minutes’ prove again the power of mainstream media

WASHINGTON | When it comes to bringing down the bad guys in government, America’s newspaper presses are still rolling and, when linked with the power of the national camera, their impact can still be lethally quick. → Read More

Thomasson: Banning bump stocks won’t stop the NRA

WASHINGTON | The banning of gun modification devices called bump stocks may be a small concession, but even the mighty National Rifle Association can see the wisdom of making it in the wake of the Las Vegas horror. With any luck, the next massacre – and there’s bound to be one – won’t be quite so deadly. → Read More

Thomasson: Trump must avoid Carter’s mistakes

With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe, this is for those of you born after “the valley of the shadow." → Read More

Thomasson: Trump must avoid Jimmy Carter’s mistakes

WASHINGTON | With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe, this is for those of you born after “the valley of the shadow,” when vicious hordes attacked the sovereignty of this country by invading the American Embassy in Tehran. → Read More

Dan K. Thomasson: Football’s back, but problems persist at Penn State

WASHINGTON | For too long, perhaps, Penn State University has lived in its own little world. It’s a school so dedicated to football its leaders turned their backs on what became one of the worst scandals in the history of college athletics. Their unhealthy idolization of their late long-time head coach Joe Paterno led to his disgrace, the incarceration of a deviant former assistant coach, Jerry… → Read More

Thomasson: Debate’s guaranteed with drug costs like these

WASHINGTON | Years ago, when my daughter was in the first stages of treatment for a brain tumor (thankfully not a glioblastoma), I went with her to the pharmacy to get 11 pills that were part of a partially filled prescription she had received earlier. → Read More

Dan K. Thomasson: We continually ask ourselves ‘what kind of day was it?’

WASHINGTON — “What kind of a day was it?” Walter Cronkite used to ask on his early weekly television program, “You Were There,” that reprised significant historic events with viewers serving as eye witnesses. It is safe to say that if Cronkite were still hosting this show, he would find enough drama in the current … → Read More

Thomasson: States stand up to Trump’s ill-conceived commission

WASHINGTON | Well, our states seem to have taken a page from history and have asserted their rights and shown some backbone to boot. They have stood up to a bizarre attempt by the White House to prove the man who lives there – at least part of the time – was the victim of vast voter fraud that gave his opponent nearly three million more popular votes than he received. → Read More