By GREG MARKLEY On the first day of high school in 1971, as freshmen, two friends and I bought elevator tickets from burly and angry-looking seniors. We knew there was no elevator, but paid 50 cents for a ride anyway, given the scary scene. (Probably this ploy happens...

By GREG MARKLEY It happened a few days after I arrived at Fort McClellan, Alabama, in November 1989 to serve as editor of The McClellan News and enlisted leader in public affairs. My boss asked me which team I was rooting for in the Iron Bowl that  Dec. 2, the first...

By GREG MARKLEY With the death of former Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Colin Powell in October, I was reminded of the amazing durability of Dick Cheney, the secretary of defense working alongside Powell in the 1991 Gulf War. Cheney had heart attacks in 1978 (at age...

By GREG MARKLEY In a recent piece in New York Times magazine, opinion writer Jay Caspian Kang wrote a commentary titled “The Reductive Practice of Assigning Book Reviews by Identity.” He argued that “It might be healthy for progressives to stop, look up from the work...