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GARVEY: Only suckers try to make magical childhood memories for their kids

I refuse to try to build any more precious childhood memories for my kids. I'm just giving them fuel for the therapist's office (and I'm sure they already have enough of that). The camel's back-breaking straw came the other day, when my husband and I took our kids to an open-air concert at a ...

SHAPIRO: The end of patriotism?

America has a major problem: Nearly half of Americans — 42% — don't believe in America. According to Gallup, just 58% of adults say they are either "extremely" or "somewhat" proud to be American. That number has been in steep decline for a decade: In 2004, that number was 91%, and was still ...

BARONE: What the 12-Day War hath wrought

Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel's victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around me at work and law school then had been frustrated and puzzled at the lack of progress being made in Vietnam by the 448,000 U.S. troops ...

BARONE: The barista proletariat wins in New York

Zohran Mamdani's lead in first choices in New York City's ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth and fifth choices of trailing candidates are allocated to candidates voters ranked lower, mean that he'll be the Democratic nominee for mayor of the ...

ERICKSON: Assessments and credibility

On Tuesday, in what it labeled an "exclusive," CNN reported that initial intelligence assessments of the Iran bombing suggested Iran had been set back a couple of months in its quest for a nuclear weapon. The report's lead reporter was Natasha Bertrand. In 2020, Bertrand played a lead role in ...