December 29, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The big fact-checking outfits are out with their “lie of the year” lists. It’s the kind of end-of-year ritual I can appreciate — because it’s a salute to accountability. But this year I’ve been wondering if we can even handle the truth. Read story
December 27, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Kimmy Garris, who describes herself as a “fat solo traveler,” probably had no idea that her 30-second TikTok video was going to cause a sensation when she recorded herself in September politely asking a Southwest Airlines gate agent if she could avail herself of the airline’s “customer of size” policy. Read story
December 26, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Forecasting the future is difficult. But here’s an easy prediction: The anti-vaccination movement in the U.S. and globally is going to result in the deaths of more children. Read story
December 25, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Two years ago, Democrats in the Legislature had the lawmaking session of a generation. Read story
December 25, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Joe Biden just can’t win. I refer not to the presidential election, which is still 11 months away, but to his supporters’ predisposition for dissatisfaction. Read story
December 25, 2023, 6:01am Columns
One year ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a joint session of Congress. Lawmakers hailed him as a hero defender of democracy against an aggressive Russia, whose leader threatened Europe and the United States. Read story
December 25, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Over and over again in my psychotherapy practice, I hear the lament, “I don’t know what to say.” When heartbreaking events happen on either a personal or public scale, such as a medical diagnosis or mass shooting, there is a need for people to show up in some capacity to… Read story
December 25, 2023, 6:01am Columns
It’s being said by conservatives and liberals: America faces a crisis of affordable housing. And the way out of it is to build more houses. Read story
December 23, 2023, 6:02am Columns
The great thing about the right to free speech is that we have the right to be wrong. Or obtuse. Or obnoxious, if we are so inclined. Read story
December 23, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Believe it or not, one recent divisive week in Washington did manage to produce a cause on which 303 members of the House could agree: condemning the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, MIT and Harvard. Read story
