In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35% and 40%. He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure. No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls well over 50% ...

During the Christmas season when I was a boy, my mother used to take my brothers and sisters and me down to one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Francisco to visit some animals that were gathered there. This was the Tenderloin District, which attracted drug dealers, drug users and a sad ...

One year ago, almost to the day, I used this column as a “post-wedding dispatch” to offer some (very) preliminary thoughts on marriage. The column was published five days after my wedding. Now, almost exactly one year later, I am using this column as a “post-birth dispatch” to offer ...

New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the airspace of airports and military bases. Terrified thousands demand to know what these drones are doing and to whom they belong. In response, the ...

Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene. It was Trump again ...

Louisville, Kentucky, got their Christmas present early this year. The Department of Justice, Louisville Metro Government and Louisville Metro Police Department have signed a Consent Decree, an agreement to enact significant, systemic reforms to policing in Louisville. In 2020, the murder of ...