August 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Our friends in health care have seen plenty to impale the heart in this pandemic, but nothing more tragic than this: the sight of guilt-ridden children who believe they’ve killed an unvaccinated parent by bringing the virus home. Read story
August 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
In the wake of the suicide bombs at Kabul airport by ISIS terrorists, I must pay tribute to those Americans who have been helping to rescue endangered Afghans. Read story
August 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
I would like to share with you a conversation about politics that I didn’t want to have. But the man in the Arizona bar sitting a couple of stools down from me was persistent, so I reluctantly engaged. Read story
August 28, 2021, 6:01am Columns
I will not lie. I want lots of space placed between a beautiful duck gliding on the marshes and the duck a l’orange carefully arranged on my plate. And I’ll never forget the jarring sight of a hawk plucking a baby duck from the water. Its pathetic little quacks still… Read story
August 27, 2021, 6:01am Columns
He said many profound things that day. Read story
August 25, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Amid the chaos in Kabul, politicians and pundits have declared the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan a defeat from which U.S. influence may never recover. Read story
August 24, 2021, 6:01am Columns
By acting nobly on slavery, Abraham Lincoln once said, America could be “the last best hope of Earth.” But right now we look more like the United States of incompetence. Read story
August 23, 2021, 6:01am Columns
America’s longest war went on for so long that many Americans probably forgot it was there until we tried to quit. Read story
August 23, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Depending on their interpretations of the state’s new police reforms, law-enforcement agencies are responding to 911 calls with vastly different equipment and tactics, sometimes putting public safety at risk. Read story
August 23, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Latinos can be from the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Cuba, Spain and, of course, Mexico. They can be of any skin color, though social activists and other head counters often refer to them as “brown.” Read story