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GARVEY: Breakfast on the Hindenburg

I stumbled across an old menu the other day on social media, one claiming to be from 1937, for the passengers on a German zeppelin crossing the Atlantic. "Breakfast," it read, "on board the airship Hindenburg." The words dotted the page in elegant script like a poem: "Coffee, tea, ...

ERICKSON: Tragedy and reality

Renee Good died on Wednesday in Minneapolis. She had been attempting to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents engaged in federal law enforcement activities. Along with other protestors, Good involved herself in what federal agents were doing and used her car to block them. Confronted ...

WILLIAMS: The task that lies ahead in Venezuela

Dictator and narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in a thrilling nighttime raid on his palace in Caracas, Venezuela, in an operation codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve. The mission involved over 150 aircraft launched from around 20 bases across the hemisphere. It ...

NAPOLITANO: A lawless presidency

The United States invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, the domestically recognized Venezuelan president, violated the U.S. Constitution and international law. The Constitution makes clear that only Congress can authorize a foreign invasion. In the pre-World War II era, ...

ROBBINS: Going to extremes: As our domestic cancer spreads, America flails

Five years to the week since the extremism-fueled, extremist-led Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and with plentiful documentation of the metastasizing threat from extremism from both Right and Left, Farah Pandith could be forgiven for feeling that her life's work combating hate is ...

HARROP: There are times to put down cellphones. Lots of times.

The year opened with what could be one of the most horrifying videos of 2026. At 1:30 a.m. in a basement bar at a Swiss ski resort, flames started dancing on the ceiling. Instead of rushing upstairs to flee the room, many celebrants lifted their cellphones toward the blaze, eager to record the ...