At a time when its legitimacy as an apolitical institution is being questioned, the Supreme Court has been dragged into partisan disputes about when and how ballots shou...
The winner of the presidential election will need to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and also begin preparing the United States and the world for the next pandemic.
Prepa...
World leaders behave in a settled pattern after a terrorist attack, so we know what to expect after the gruesome events that took place in Nice on Thursday morning.
Fren...
When I was a boy I used to go vote with my mother on Election Day. At a nearby public school, we would enter a booth, draw a heavy curtain and I’d flick a number of litt...
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, and most Americans — those not living in Arizona, Hawaii or our outlying territories (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American S...
A spoonful of sugar makes your life span go down. That’s the conclusion of one study conducted by researchers at Harvard, which found that having too many sugary drinks ...
I am a prodigal of Midwestern farm country, and, yes, I recognize the irony that this year I’ve been leaving home in a rush each morning for the enjoyment of growing foo...
Can news be unifying? Will Americans want to watch or read unifying news?
The emphatic answer is “Yes” to both questions.
A new concept, unifying news can reduce the div...
I walked my ballot up to the drop box at the neighborhood high school last week, and for a few minutes, in the company of the autumn leaves and all those other voters, i...
Bored with the pandemic, my neighbors are going all out for Halloween.
One yard is covered with skeletons — pushing their way out of the ground, walking skeleton dogs, d...
