3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (787+ words) It's 25 years later as I sit writing this column on 9-11 and the events of that day and the ensuing emotions all come flooding back. The tears and the fears most certainly are there. So is the anger, the shock and…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (667+ words) “True is it that we have seen better days.” — William Shakespeare Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed on our soil in…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (343+ words) In one of his Truth Social bombs, President Donald Trump insisted we should rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Canada refused to accept his trade negotiation terms. It obviously echoes his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (632+ words) The couple had every reason to believe they were walking into the final step of a process that would allow Armelle to remain legally in the country she has called home since she was 9 years old. Three weeks later, I…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (355+ words) So, it was a war for oil after all. On social media Friday, President Trump announced that the United States and Venezuela have struck an agreement for “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY.” The whole thing is appalling, starting…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (623+ words) Where does Tom Homan go to get his apology? When Trump put his border czar in charge of unwinding the controversial DHS operation in Minneapolis earlier this year, critics on the right believed that Homan would be the instrument of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (420+ words) Totalitarian movements, Arendt wrote, succeed not by convincing people of a specific lie but by creating a consistent, logical fictional world that defies ordinary common sense and human experience. Which raises the questions that a growing number of Americans are…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1778+ words) Nothing about Colin Kaepernick, the football player, changed on that warm Southern California night a decade ago. Not his speed. Not his arm strength. Not the improvisational skills that made him one of the NFL’s most electrifying, if at times…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (355+ words) President Trump’s tariffs aren’t popular, but he’s found a way to make them even less so — a trade war with America’s most inoffensive ally. When one thinks of countries that deserve to be subjected to a steady stream of insults…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (317+ words) “Woke 1′ was crazy.” So said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on ABC News’ “This Week” earlier this month. She said she was quoting New York City Councilman Chi Osse, whom The New York Times characterizes as “far left.” This was…...