“Optimism, n. — The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything is good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong...
One insistent question that will shape 2017 is whether we’re witnessing the gradual decay of the post-World War II international order, dominated by the economic and mil...
Viewing 2016 in retrospect — doing so is unpleasant, but less so than was living through it — the year resembles a china shop after a visit from an especially maladroit ...
We’ve come a long way from Daniel Patrick Moynihan excoriating the U.N.’s 1975 “Zionism is racism” resolution in one of the finer exhibits of righteous indignation in th...
“When the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.”
— Barack Obama AIPAC conference, March 4, 2012
The audience — overwhelmingly Jewish, passionately pro-Israel and supreme...
A brand new year full of exciting possibilities awaits.
And while it’s unnerving having an unpredictable motormouth running the show, as we plunge into 2017, we should a...
I was right in July, but oh, so wrong in November.
In July, I wrote an amazingly intelligent column explaining how Donald Trump, then dismissed as an erratic underdog, c...
At the time of the presidential election in November there were 26 states with a right to work (RTW) law in place. Three states had recently joined the RTW ranks in the ...
For decades, adventurers have clawed up Mount Everest to proclaim they’d scaled the planet’s highest peak. Some have died trying. But now we learn that by at least one m...
We must as a nation be more unpredictable,” Donald Trump said during the presidential campaign. “We have to be unpredictable!”
Mission accomplished. Last week, without w...
