Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
Paris is a city of great pleasures, but one of the best is sitting on the exterior terrace of a cafe, drinking something delicious, and puffing away on a cigar. It’s a pretty complete experience — two kinds of intoxicants entering the bloodstream, the bustle and hum of the city as it passes by, the […]
I’ve told you about U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Nick Mitchel, who earned his combat action ribbon on his first day in the war in Afghanistan. Months of regular combat, and then … Sometimes things happen in the military that seem more like a novel or a Hollywood movie than real life. Mitchel, six other Marines, […]
Many political analysts did not believe Republicans could pass a single, sprawling bill encompassing much of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda using the budget reconciliation process. The majorities in both Houses of Congress were too narrow and the coalitions too diverse to achieve agreement, they argued. But Trump, with major assists from Republican leadership, continued […]
President Trump delivered a victory-lap speech Thursday night at the Iowa State Fair, extolling a streak of recent wins from his America First Agenda while kicking off the year-long buildup to the country's 250th birthday celebration.
President Trump is raising the visitor fees to national parks for foreign tourists with an executive order Thursday, a move the White House says will make park visits more affordable for U.S. citizens.
“All happy families are alike,” Tolstoy wrote, “but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Over the years, the famous opening line to Anna Karenina has gone from being a bold generalization to a dictum. Good writers since Tolstoy seem to have taken the great Russian’s declaration as a challenge to devise interesting […]
This all started 5,000 years ago. That’s when, give or take a millennium or two, the journey began, which ended with me writing and you reading these words in English. Retracing every last twist in the path from there to here, no doubt, would make for a gripping book. However, that is not the book […]