On November 10, 1972, Patrick J. Buchanan wrote a memo to Richard Nixon. A few days earlier, Nixon had been reelected president in one of the largest landslides in U.S. history.

My late grandfather, a rabbi and Air Force chaplain during the Korean War, was a lifelong Democrat.

For all the resources the New York Times has devoted to throwing four reporters into investigating what flags have flown at the home and beach house of Justice Samuel Alito, the desperate sleight of hand in the stories has become all the more apparent.