Presidents since Lincoln have issued their own Thanksgiving proclamations. President Barack Obama’s proclamation for 2016 is expected on Thursday; here is Obama’s 20...
Of all the losers in this season of discontent, the mainstream media top the list. I don’t say this lightly and sincerely fear that loss of faith in journalism ultimatel...
If you’re able to think past President-elect Donald Trump’s nasty campaign bluster, you’ll discover something soothing, even exciting in his electioneering promises to c...
When, chest puffed out with pride, my father told a law partner his first-born was accepted to Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia, this was the immediate response: “Isn’t...
Much of the world has been shocked and dismayed by Donald Trump’s electoral success, but there are those who are delighted.
“This was a victory for the forces which oppo...
Many undergraduates, their fawnlike eyes wide with astonishment, are wondering: Why didn’t the dean of students prevent the election from disrupting the serenity to whic...
Sometimes it takes a foreigner who is fighting for democracy to remind Americans of how much we take our system for granted. Such a wake-up call is particularly useful w...
The Oct. 24 editorial (“A useless, discriminatory bill outlawing Sharia law”) rejects state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe’s proposal to ban Islamic and other foreign laws from Pen...
Elections regularly inspire an orgy of hype — and so it is with this one. The Democrats are in disarray, it’s said. Unless they’re enormously skillful or lucky, they ris...
Over the next few months Republicans are expected to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act.
How this plays out is unknown becau...
