Get to the point: Is America great yet?

I am writing in an effort to persuade your habitual contributors to shorten and freshen their submissions. Now we can almost read their first 20 words, glance down at the author’s name, and fill in the other 230 words ourselves.

Correspondents, please consider FDR’s advice on public speaking: “Be sincere; be brief; be seated.” I’m tagging my campaign “#99wordsorless.”

My current submission follows:

Is America great yet?

This story was originally published May 16, 2017 at 3:10 PM with the headline "Get to the point: Is America great yet?."