“The Star-Spangled Banner,” our country’s national anthem, is a famously hard song to sing. Why is that? I don’t know. I’m not a music theorist; I just pay attention to when everyone starts applauding ...

Nature, in her bounty, has provided an endless supply of things for the right and the left to argue about. Big things, like the annexation of Greenland. Little things — like a song. "Lift Every Voice ...