Yes, Senate confirmation hearings continue to be a farce. But they remain worthwhile, as long as we don’t have unrealistic ideas about what the process should do.
Over t...
The co-founder of Twitter, St. Louis native Jack Dorsey, on Wednesday had this assessment: “Abuse, harassment, troll armies, propaganda through bots and human coordinati...
The media discussion surrounding the Brett Kavanaugh nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court has repeated many myths that are simply not true.
First, I heard several times...
Think of it as a new draft notice in the war against drugs. We’ve gotten used to reading about heroin, fentanyl and opioid overdoses. Now there’s a new villain: syntheti...
There's a standard joke among physicists — in theory, they tell each other, hummingbirds actually can't fly.
An equal measure of skepticism might be applied to Nike's ne...
This column isn’t really about Texas. But a U.S. Senate race in my home state is assuming an instructive pattern for other congressional and gubernatorial races. It pits...
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
Louis D. Brandeis wrote his often-quoted line about the power and necessity of transparency in 1913, three years befo...
Cheers and thank you to a group of volunteers who planed hundreds of flags in Zelienople on Friday, to raise awareness for the issue of veteran suicide.
The 660 flags, w...
This is a column about listening.
It’s about the millions of people in this country who feel that no one cares what they think or values what they do. People who believe...
A judicial process that doesn’t allow the accused to cross-examine his accuser or reliably see the evidence against him is a civil libertarian’s nightmare. It traduces e...
