The First Amendment to our Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention during its narrow 89 to 79 vote to ratify the Constitution. Virginia’s ...
The women of the U.S. national soccer team are famous for being extraordinary athletes, repeat world champions — and plaintiffs.
The team’s lawsuit alleging pay discrim...
It looks as if Vladimir Putin wants to be recalled as something besides being an aggressive autocrat. He yearns, it seems, to be seen as a leading political thinker, res...
Who is the real Kamala Harris?
The senator from California dominated the Democratic presidential debate when she excoriated Joe Biden for his opposition to mandatory bus...
The Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays, even though I despise the summer. That’s because this most red, white and blue of our annual celebrations belongs to P...
We are in a blessed time now that the medical profession is more likely to heal us than to kill us by its ministrations. In the ancient world, to go to a physician was a...
Today’s crisis of conservatism has produced surprisingly few books that try to understand what exactly has happened to the venerable creed. For decades, conservatism was...
A few weeks before the scheduled launch of Apollo 11, which was intended to land the first humans on the moon, presidential speechwriter William Safire got a call from A...
The most obscure part of President Trump’s economic agenda is deregulation. This is not because anyone is deliberately hiding it. The real reason is more mundane: Deregu...
It was as if nice, old Joe Biden was out on the street begging for votes when Kamala Harris walked by with a 50-pound handbag and slammed him on the head. He didn’t reco...