The bitter irony of the Michael Brown case is that if he had actually put his hands up and said, “Don’t shoot,” he almost certainly would be alive today.
His family woul...
When it comes to ancestry and immigration, we all have our own stories. Mine begins in Eastern Europe.
My maternal grandmother Vukica (Victoria) was born to Milo and Mil...
The 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, gave the following advice to the nation on Oct. 3, 1863, during the Civil War:
“We have been the recipients of ...
Advances in technology have given police agencies expanded surveillance capabilities. But used in secret or indiscriminately, technology presents major threats to privac...
If there was ever an issue that required politics to stop at the water’s edge, it’s the fight against ISIS.
With its Mideast land grab, its growing army of Western volun...
After years of debate and division, President Obama announced Thursday that he would use his executive powers to revamp the nation’s immigration system. But wait, you sa...
NEW YORK — Two-thirds of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, a poll number that has not shifted much in three years. The midterm election results were j...
It’s time for President Obama to start using the I-word when referring to Russia’s assault on Ukraine. I mean invasion.
The world is witnessing a Russian invasion of a n...
WASHINGTON — Historic. Such is the ubiquitous description of the climate agreement recently announced in Beijing between Barack Obama and Xi Jinping in which China promi...
The contentious Keystone XL oil pipeline was not laid to rest when the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to kill it.
It will get new life next year, when the Senate’s newly elec...
