My old friend Clarinda signs her e-mails “Hugs, Cl,” which I think is a warm and friendly way of closing a letter to people we especially like — good friends, specific c...
As the 2020 campaign revs up, the major issues seem clear — health care, taxes, racism, climate change, immigration and President Donald Trump. But ask a candidate where...
John Adams, our second president and a principal guide in the writing of the U.S. Constitution in addition to his work on the Declaration of Independence, also defended ...
The Joe Biden polling surge has raised the frightful specter of Democratic rationality.
What if Donald Trump hasn’t driven Democrats insane, sending them into a spiral o...
The Trump administration is going about its trade war with China all wrong. Its strategy and tactics are muddled. If Trump were a general watching the battle unfold, wha...
When the governor of Florida summons reporters to the state Capitol to say that “I’ve recently met with the FBI,” you know something is just not right.
That’s what happe...
China has been breaking trade rules and cheating its way to manufacturing dominance for well over a decade, despite efforts by a succession of U.S. presidents to get it ...
Lysistrata, the character from the Aristophanes play of the same name, declared a sex strike to try to stop a devastating war in ancient Greece.
Alyssa Milano, the actre...
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University Richard Vedder’s new book, “Restoring the Promise,” published by the Independent Institute in Oakland, C...
Iran’s threat to pull out of the nuclear deal — in phases, rather than in a fell swoop — will likely have the opposite effect from the one the regime intends. Rather tha...
