My father and I, discouraged at the election over the holiday, opened a book of poetry I brought along to the house. Somewhere we traveled was back in time to John F. Kennedy's inauguration on a bright snowy day on Jan. 20, 1961. Almost unbelievably, Kennedy asked New England poet Robert ...

There are some real problems with Hegseth's nomination. First, he failed to disclose an incident with police to the Trump team that related to a purported sexual assault. It seems clear there was no sexual assault, but Hegseth should have raised it and did not. Second, his tenure in charge of ...

The word that Palestinians use for the 1948 displacement of many of their forebears is "Nakba," Arabic for "catastrophe." That displacement, of course, was a self-inflicted catastrophe, but also one that Arab leaders inflicted on the rest of the world, which has paid a heavy price for it. It ...

Whatever happened to the Democrats' reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man? Those are questions that Democrats are asking after Vice President Kamala ...

The way America thinks about health care is terribly wrong. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that a staggering 74% of adults in America are obese or overweight. Don't search for a scapegoat like McDonald's or Kentucky Fried Chicken. The problem is that we ignore ...

My initial reaction to the issuance of a full pardon by President Joe Biden to his son Hunter was emotional. What father wouldn't pardon his own son, if he could? I suspect that the president has harbored these paternal thoughts even while he denied numerous times that he was planning on ...