WASHINGTON — The days get shorter, darker, colder. This solstice season the descent feels more real. Then there's 2024 to brace for. It's all there in the midnight clear here in the heartbeat of the free world. We're lighting menorah candles and Christmas trees, but without much incandescent ...
I've been thinking about the Parthenon marbles too much lately, having imaginary arguments in my head with museum curators and conservative Britons about how overdue their repatriation to Greece is. That might make me sound a little nutty, but there has been, to be fair to me, a lot of media ...
Nikki Haley is the dark horse in the Republican presidential race that Democrats should watch closely as she gains ground by the day, hair flying with the wind. Brace for a "Hail Nikki" surge while former President Donald Trump's troubles with the law mount and his grip on reality loosens and ...
For those dismayed at how many college and university students and faculty, even, or especially, at selective and prestigious institutions, have been cheering Hamas' Oct. 7 atrocities and calling, in only slightly veiled language, for the destruction of Israel and genocide of Jews, the question ...
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." — Hosea 8:7 The debacle of the nearly 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan continues in Joe Biden's America today. This disaster began when President George W. Bush — stung deeply by the intelligence that he failed to ...
They came waving Palestinian flags and clad in the keffiyehs that have become a symbol of the Palestinian cause. Dozens of chanting protesters crowded the street outside Goldie, a vegan restaurant serving Israeli-inspired dishes in central Philadelphia, blocking traffic and chanting, "Goldie, ...
The government has a dilemma: It's pushing hard for fuel-efficient vehicles, but gas taxes pay for roads. There's an obvious fix, but are Americans ready for it? Granted, tax credits, subsidies and government mandates aren't delivering the electric-vehicle sales surge the Biden administration ...
"Medical Freedom" crusaders are trying to end vaccination requirements for schoolchildren. Places where they succeed, epidemiologists warn, will, for starters, become overrun with measles, a disease that was virtually eliminated thanks to vaccines. Measles used to kill up to 500 people a year, ...
I watched the finale of "The Golden Bachelor" last night, as one does when it's on, the kids are in bed and your mother-in-law has poured you a glass of wine. It was a wild ride, but no spoiler alert is necessary here: This column is about the show, but it's also not about the show. Because ...
George Orwell, call your office. That's my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration's efforts to stamp out "misinformation." It's an interesting irony that covert censorship should be undertaken enthusiastically by those who call themselves ...
