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PARKER: Charlie Kirk and the state of our nation

The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk. The media is filled, also rightly, with give and take trying to understand what can and should be done so that we don't see more of the same. But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed ...

GARVEY: Sorry, but I’m going to keep calling you ‘Mr.’

I got called "Georgia" by one of my son's friends the other day. I wasn't insulted -- I know from firsthand experience that kids nowadays have a startling familiarity with adults. My own son and his cousin, both 6 years old, once walked up to my husband's 70-year-old uncle when they saw him ...

The Homefront: Finding future comfort in overlooked relations

Staring into the faces of my cousins at a funeral for one of them made me realize how much I love these people whom I never chose to be related to, but can’t imagine my childhood without them in it. My deceased first cousin was actually a twin. His family, like mine, had lots of kids. ...

ERICKSON: We arrive at my fear

A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the left that their opponents are evil, and words are violence. A permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets that the right must be stopped to save democracy. An exculpatory structure formed on CNN and other ...

BARONE: Democratic Party isolation is getting worse

We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked. One was the conviction in Florida of Ryan Routh, the second man who attempted to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump in mid-September ...