TEL AVIV, Israel — In 2017, Donald “America First” Trump relinquished America’s 70-year role as global leader, a post already diminished by his two predecessors. Nowhere...
A year ago, as the Trump Era was dawning in Washington, I peered into the future and tried to predict what we should expect from our strange new president.
“I’m going to...
The aliens are here, the aliens are here — illegal aliens from outer space. And what is President Donald Trump to do? Put out tweets referring to them as “little green m...
Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics for reshaping our understanding of human motivation, once said: “No one ever made a decision because of a number. The...
As the final hours of 2017 dwindle down toward the new year, here is an overriding wish for Butler County in 2018.
Let’s all strive to be a community. Let us be gracious...
This year’s best movie about a spirited band of resisters fighting an empire of evil isn’t the latest entry in the “Star Wars” franchise, but “Darkest Hour,” an extraord...
Let us now praise Ben Beach, a Washington writer and longtime friend. Like me, Ben is a confirmed statistics buff.
Unlike me, he’s disciplined. All through the year, he...
After a unique 2017, can the denizens of the D.C. swamp outdo themselves in 2018? Let’s look ahead with my annual not-totally-serious forecast:
January: With job approva...
It was momentous, an achievement beyond belief: The inevitable election of Hillary Clinton as president had been averted, leftism was down on its knees and the issue was...
As a functional obsessive-compulsive, I’m never happier than at year’s end when I get to make lists. Herewith, my picks for the most important stories of 2017:
This year...
