September 12, 2022, 6:01am Columns
America’s most recent defense secretaries and military chiefs united behind a bold and unprecedented initiative this past week, hoping to prevent our democracy from being shattered by a future president who ignites a full-blown coup. Read story
September 12, 2022, 6:01am Columns
After the FBI search for classified records at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, his chorus of sycophants kept singing the same tune: The search was unnecessary. The government should have just asked him to return the documents. Trump had declassified them anyway. Read story
September 11, 2022, 6:02am Columns
The questions were prudent yet preposterous. Articulate yet asinine. Read story
September 11, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Her grandmother was the one who suspected. Too long in the bathroom with the phone. She even missed making cupcakes with her sister and me. Something was wrong. Very, very wrong. Read story
September 11, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Oh no, please, say it isn’t true. But yes, of course it is, and it’s not exactly a surprise. We have had a report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, showing that students in our schools are faring egregiously worse in reading and math than before COVID-19 interference, with two… Read story
September 11, 2022, 6:01am Columns
A federal judge issued a ruling on Labor Day that is, unfortunately, no longer surprising even though it should be shocking to all but the most MAGA-blinded Americans. Read story
September 11, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Politics these days is all about divides — cultural, racial, urban versus rural. But a new post-primary poll of Washington highlights a different gap, one that now trumps them all (pun intended). Read story
September 9, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The MAGA Republicans think Joe Biden is being mean to them. Read story
September 7, 2022, 6:01am Columns
As heretical as it may be for a baby boomer to say, it probably is time for the next president to come from a younger generation. Read story
September 6, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 797 more than a year ago, but school districts and citizens were preoccupied with the pandemic. No one paid much attention to S.B. 797’s requirement that all public schools in Texas — from first grade through university — post our national motto: In God… Read story