When I was a young scientist working on the fledgling creation that came to be known as the internet, the ethos that defined the culture we were building was characteriz...
At his campaign events, President Donald Trump often reserves time to talk about farmers. At one such rally, he called them “great patriots,” while on other occasions he...
Gun control did not become politically acceptable until the Gun Control Act of 1968 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The law’s primary focus was to regul...
Even now that most of the world has acknowledged that climate change is real and caused by humans, combating it has proved daunting. Why? There are five features that co...
Republican senators soon will be receiving an invitation to tear apart the GOP ahead of the 2020 elections, and they are going to decline to accept it.
It’s a trope of p...
Donald Trump went to the World Series game in Washington Sunday night, with predictable results: He was fiercely booed.
That’s fine; there’s a long, mostly healthy hist...
There is victory, and then there is justice. In America’s long war versus those who commit terror, the pursuit of these two noble aims isn’t synonymous.
Victory against ...
It increasingly seems that the fate of Donald Trump’s presidency will be settled by that old political standby: public opinion.
By all reports, Democrats have more than ...
Though the attribution is disputed, the writer C.S. Lewis is said to have quipped: “You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
It may be closer to the ma...
Elizabeth Warren’s $800 billion plan to improve public education, like many of her plans, is admirable in its ambitions but misguided in its approach.
If the federal go...
