EUROPEANS WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THEY HAD LISTENED TO TRUMP. President Donald Trump is back in the United States, tending to urgent political matters, including the upcoming midterm elections. But as usual, when he travels to Europe, Trump leaves a lot of turbulence in his wake. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, many European […]
PITTSBURGH — A little more than 75 years ago, my father and a handful of friends, all sons of Italian immigrants, hitched up their sleds and rode them from the top of the city of Pittsburgh’s Summer Hill neighborhood slopes onto East Street during what was later called the Great Appalachian Storm. That superstorm on […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Friday he is back in the Lone Star State after a viral photo showed him on a plane as the state prepared for a massive winter storm. “I’ve returned home from my work trip. It’s 66 degrees & beautiful. A storm is expected tomorrow night,” Cruz posted on the social...
With dangerously-cold arctic air already settling over a large swath of the U.S. Friday, at least 177 million people are under watches or warnings for ice and snow.
An FBI agent in Minneapolis who attempted to probe the death of a 37-year-old woman killed by a federal immigration officer earlier this month has resigned, according to multiple reports. Tracee Mergen left her job in the bureau's Minneapolis field office after facing pressure to discontinue an inquiry into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Word of warning to Health Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr.: Restoring Americans' trust in the feds' public-health decisions means hiring truly fair-minded, science-driven folks —...
THE PARADE WAS A GOOD THING. Here’s the first thing to say about Saturday’s military parade in Washington, D.C., honoring the Army’s 250th birthday: It was a good thing to do. It wasn’t a vanity production for President Donald Trump’s birthday. It wasn’t an authoritarian flex. It wasn’t a threat to the American people. It was, […]
The Los Angeles riots have made it crystal clear: Congress’ Big Beautiful Bill is crucial to President Donald Trump’s law-and-order agenda of deporting illegal...
The girls cleaned up at my (Brad’s) daughter’s middle school graduation in Virginia this month. Three out of four of the school’s top awards went to girls. A majority of the “President’s Academic Excellence Awards,” an award given to students who maintained an “A” average each semester throughout their middle school career, went to girls. […]
Roughly one in four American children grows up without a father at home, and birth rates hover near historic lows. Amid these challenges, fathers are often cast in the culture as extras in an increasingly task‑driven portrayal of parenting, reduced to a name on a car‑pool schedule or a wallet at the ready. On Father’s Day, […]
The world certainly isn’t aching for more live-action remakes. Disney’s offerings have ranged from the not too bad to the just OK to the downright terrible. But sometimes, a remake is more than a cash grab, and it comes just when you need it. Such is the case with Dreamworks’s How to Train Your Dragon, […]
Patriarchy in some cultures can be excessive. Parents can have too much control over their children’s lives. Men can have too much power over women. The present can have too much deference for the past. None of this is true in America today, though. One in four children is raised without a father or stepfather […]
