For most of a year now, pundits (including me) have been surprised by the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, the populist outsiders in the presidential campaign. W...
It can hinder how they learn
WASHINGTON — From the cacophony of day care to the buzz of TV and electronic toys, noise is more distracting to a child’s brain than an adult...
The New Hampshire results have solidified the reigning cliche that the 2016 campaign is an anti-establishment revolt of both the left and the right. Largely overlooked, ...
America is suffering from a pernicious and growing addiction to a category of drugs that include prescription pain medications and heroin.
Opioid abuse and overdoses tak...
Bernie Sanders, greedy for power to punish people he considers greedy, has occasioned 2016’s best joke, reported in Bloomberg BusinessWeek: “In the Bernie Sanders drinki...
Donald Trump’s crushing across-the-board victory in New Hampshire had the breadth and depth that one would expect of a future nominee. If the result doesn’t shake the la...
South Carolina, the nation turns its troubled heart to you. And we expect you will rip it apart.
In Texas, they say, politics is a contact sport. In South Carolina, it i...
A funny thing happened on the way to Jeb Bush’s long-expected disappearance from the Republican presidential contest: He became a better — and more interesting — candida...
Two recent comments by famous feminists have underscored the inevitable and predicted the foregone: The feminist era of Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Alb...
In the blink of an eye, we’ve gone from opening combat jobs to women to Republican presidential candidates endorsing registering women for a draft.
Hide your daughters —...
