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On Ukraine, the neo-isolationists of the right are fighting the last war. They warn of a return to the belligerent mood that led to the U.S. invasion ...

If you think that catalytic converter theft is a faceless property crime, you’re wrong. A Texas county sheriff’s deputy, Darren Almendarez, lost his l...

A few months ago, I ran into a recently retired judge, a former prosecutor and friendly acquaintance, at the grocery store. I asked him what he though...

There is a consensus that the Democratic Party is in trouble with midterm elections seven months away. The polls say it, the issues say it and history...

The absurd chorus of Republican rationalization for opposing Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson hit a crescendo over the weekend with this co...

Elon Musk just bought a $3 billion stake in Twitter Inc., because when you’re the world’s richest human you can toss billions around like poker chips....

The walls evidently aren’t closing in on President Joe Biden. Despite the mainstream press finally taking up the sleazy business dealings discussed in...

FORT WORTH, Texas — In 2020, I wrote about how my family, which at the time included three preschool-aged children, opted to skip the Super Bowl to av...

WASHINGTON — Last week, President Joe Biden sent Congress his proposed defense budget for the next fiscal year: an $813 billion wish list, almost $60 ...

It’s national budget time in Washington, so the conversation on Capitol Hill is focused on numbers. But an important number is being overlooked, one t...

Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams did it. So did Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison. Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, too. Also Wil...

Biden’s “billionaire minimum income tax” is really a wealth tax — and it’s a bad idea for tax policy in general. On Monday, Biden rolled out a propose...

In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see. Then h...

Clarence Thomas is, by far, our most abused Supreme Court justice. His confirmation hearings in 1991 were, as he memorably put it, a high-tech lynchin...

In Michael Kinsley’s immortal definition, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” By that standa...

For many, early April signals the time for spring cleaning. Experts claim spring cleaning can make you happier, healthier, more productive and reduce ...

It’s not right. But I understand. That’s the punchline of Chris Rock’s infamous joke about O.J. Simpson. Rock points out that O.J. was paying $25,000 ...

President Joe Biden set off international alarms over the weekend when he committed the United States to the goal of regime change in Russia. “For God...