What now — now that speeches have been said, prayers prayed, and politicians have paid respect?
These have been days of intense collective pain, the affliction of a stra...
I watched Paul Ryan’s town hall on CNN this week for a number of reasons, not the least of which is my slight — OK, significant — crush on the House speaker.
Beyond tha...
“The most significant reinforcement of our collective defense any time since the Cold War,” President Obama called it. A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, but it was stil...
President Barack Obama’s eulogy for five Dallas police officers on Tuesday was an eloquent plea to Americans to acquire “a new heart” — a new empathy toward others acros...
Every time I hear a phrase like “both sides agree” in reference to Black Lives Matter and police, it makes me bristle.
Not because there aren’t usually two or more side...
President Barack Obama is a lawyer, not a statistician, and it shows.
After the controversial officer-involved shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Falcon Heights, M...
Presidential candidates invariably seek and often get endorsements from admired figures in American life. But Hillary Clinton apparently didn’t have to ask to get one of...
The tragedies that keep befalling us are best described in one word: excess. There are simply too many guns on the street, too much economic deprivation of African Ameri...
Americans watched with detached amazement as British voters embraced the blatant lies of pseudo-populists and turned the structure of their nation on its head.
We should...
WASHINGTON — Few technological breakthroughs have had the social and economic impact of the automobile. It changed America’s geography, spawning suburbs, shopping malls ...
