The Holy Land’s deadly conflicts are like the twisting and turning streets of Jerusalem’s Old City. They can lure a tourist into a cul-de-sac.
So it is with the wars bet...
A week ago, I met a group of friends at a bar for the first time in a year. We were outdoors, in a parking lot. There was traffic going by and our unhoused neighbors had...
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has vowed to stop secretly obtaining reporters’ records — finally.
It’s about time a president drew a firm line against a Justic...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
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COVID-19 vaccines make people produce a spike protein that is a to...
In 2012, Pew Research asked 1,008 Americans to describe then-Vice President Joe Biden in one word.
The responses ranged from “good,” the most common answer, to “goofy.” ...
The most eagerly awaited event in President Joe Biden’s overseas trip to Europe is his June 16 summit meeting in Geneva with Vladimir Putin.
This is a high-drama event (...
I recently flew on a plane for the first time in 15 months and was reminded that of all the many annoyances, it’s a relatively small one that drives me the most crazy: t...
The announcement of a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease was greeted this week with celebration and skepticism.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of ...
Last spring, the COVID-19 pandemic caused perhaps the worst job losses since the Great Depression. The decrease in the labor force participation rate — from 63.3% to 61....
President Joe Biden's recently unveiled budget marks a new era in U.S. economic policymaking.
Decades of trickle-down tax cuts are out the window; instead, Biden is bett...