Among its many charms, the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign will be remembered as the time when fake news became a real thing.
The handwringing is well under way. Did lie...
Last week The New York Times editorial board urged President Obama to issue a blanket commutation during the waning weeks of his presidency of the extremely long prison ...
Burn an American flag and then go to jail or lose your citizenship, says Donald Trump, who is trying his zany best to outdo the left in its war against free speech. He m...
Any reporter who’s written about the federal budget knows that there’s a surefire solution to every problem. It’s called “fraud, waste and abuse.” You want to end budget...
A joke among journalists is that we are taught to count: “one, two, trend.” But at this point, I think it’s fair to say we are witnessing a populist trend around the wor...
John Glenn was the most celebrated American hero of the past 60 years, and he never lost his small-town Midwestern roots.
The first American to orbit the Earth died Thur...
The U.S. Senate last week approved a bill that was advertised as a way to help the federal government combat harassment against Jewish students on college campuses. But ...
The differences between how Donald Trump and Barack Obama express themselves are vast and obvious. Trump is sometimes funny and cheerful, but more often cruel, barbarous...
Here’s something to think about as a new presidential administration contemplates pulling up the gangplank to opportunity for the refugees and immigrants who still clamo...
When the problem of fake news first started making headlines, I was traveling across Southeast Asia and the Middle East. That vantage point provided a striking contrast:...
