My birthday is in April. I don’t know what, exactly, I’ll be doing to celebrate (other than opening a gigantic pile of presents I hope). But one thing that I will for sure NOT be doing is playing “The Game of Averages” from the February 1904 Cosmopolitan magazine, which bills this ...

The United States must be growing and prosperous at home and strong and secure in the face of the many security threats facing us abroad. The former can only be achieved with free markets and limited government domestically and the latter through a robust defense budget. On both fronts, ...

“We come on the ship they call The Mayflower. We come on the ship that sailed the moon. We come on the age’s most uncertain hour. And we sing an American tune.” These are lines sung by Paul Simon in the last stanza of a 1973 song describing the tensions within our country of exceptional ...

My sister-in-law's dog, Molly, died recently. She was a sweet, graying Portuguese water dog, one of the gentlest pups I've ever met. She displayed a propensity for stealing food off the counter, refused to walk in heat, rain or cold and had an unhealthy obsession with eating dirt, but ...

Donald Trump's assault on our democratic institutions did not stop voters from giving him a second term. The top reason they cited for reelecting him was the economy, notably their unhappiness over high prices. During the campaign, Trump promised to "bring prices down, starting on Day One." ...

The baskets and decorations are packed away in the tote marked “Easter.” The chocolate rabbit is long gone. The sugar-crusted Peeps will soon be finished along with the foil-covered eggs. Only the jelly beans will last longer than the week because, well, they’re jelly beans. The ...