Eddie Fisher, a terrific singer popular back in the 1950s, came to mind the other day because he crooned, “You gotta have heart, miles and miles and miles of heart,” and...
I have been an American living in South Africa for more than eight years. Since November, the omicron variant has become a fulcrum that has linked my two countries, whic...
Decades of research tell a clear and sobering story: Poverty is harmful to the developing brain.
The research demonstrates how experiencing the adversity of poverty in c...
Patriotism and common decency demand that Americans do everything possible to prevent another attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election. Here’s one act...
A state grant will pay for a new opportunity for children to get physical fitness and socialization opportunities in the outdoors in Middlesex.
In an era overshadowed by...
The United States needs a new name. We are anything but United States. Politics have become such big business, and we should add such “ugly” big business that the idea t...
Pope Francis seems like a decent man whose humility and enlightened thinking sometimes put him at odds with more traditional segments of the Catholic Church. But good fo...
The first time Sidney Poitier walked into the room, I stopped talking. I think I might’ve even held my breath for a few seconds, afraid my inhaling would draw too much a...
It would be great to say that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us — and there’s some evidence that, for many, it is.
On the one hand, the omicron variant is ...
No one would have believed this possible only a few years ago, but nuclear energy has been creeping up in public estimation, despite its long record of unfulfilled promi...
