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The Trump-Russia investigation effectively ended on July 24, 2019, the day special counsel Robert Mueller testified on Capitol Hill. Mueller’s halting...

The latest hammer of a book to fall on President Donald Trump is Bob Woodward’s soon-to-be-released “Rage,” and it’s his own words that are the issue....

In the real world — that is to say, the non-televised part of our lives remote from social media — we would shun somebody who went around spreading ug...

How do you stand up to a mob? Lauren Victor, urban planner and Washington, D.C., resident, demonstrated as much on Aug. 24. On the first night of the ...

Hollywood is accommodating a new era of McCarthyism, imposed this time by Red China. It involves everything that Hollywood tells us that it hates — ce...

About halfway through lockdown, I deleted Facebook and Twitter from my iPhone. In the absence of real human interaction, I had turned to my social med...

COVID-19 is wreaking havoc not only on our health but also our healthcare. From February to May, some 5.4 million Americans lost their employer-sponso...

They say it’s the little things in life that bring the most joy and satisfaction to us. That adage came front and center a couple of weeks ago when a ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to be one of the few San Franciscans unaware that hair salons were off-limits because of the pandemic restrictions. ...

Ask people what comes to mind with the mention of “Labor Day,” and you will most likely hear two responses: “Back to school” and “Can’t wear white.” T...

We had hoped the scenes in downtown Portland, Oregon, Kenosha, Wisconsin, and other cities were not emblematic of the state of the nation in general. ...

President Grover Cleveland declared the first Monday in September as a national holiday in 1882. Labor Day was created by the labor movement and is de...

Most people look to spring to renew their spirits. New birth surrounds us in nature and just the promise on rays of an ever-warming sun can bring hope...

A new furor has erupted over Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe’s decision to give some members of Congress written updates on foreign e...

We live in an increasingly dystopian society. I hate to sound hyperbolic, but I see more and more similarities to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” to “Contagion...

Rioting and looting. Driving through crowds and shooting. These criminal acts, the work of extremists, threaten to drown out legitimate demands for re...

Until a few days ago, Democrats were content to pretend the disorder in American cities didn't exist. Now, worried that Joe Biden is on his back foot ...

In August, the Justice Department accused Yale University of discriminating against Asian and white applicants to favor other groups, willfully ignori...