The prognosis of the Iran war is now so couched in politics that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the situation is so fluid that any accurate prediction is impossible. Yet there is good reason to believe in an eventual outcome quite favorable to the U.S. and ...

There are moments in political life when rhetoric stops being merely provocative and begins to test the boundaries of institutional respect. President Donald J. Trump's attack on a sitting pope invites comparison to one of the most consequential overreaches in modern American history: ...

There's a famous scene in the movie "The Graduate" in which a young Dustin Hoffman receives this one-word bit of career advice from a businessman: "plastics." He wasn't talking about credit cards, but he might as well have been. Back in the 1960s only about half of Americans had ...

Child care got expensive — more than $13,000 per child, per year. So many people want government to pay for it. My state just agreed. New York will fund free child care. Yay! But wait ... what government does isn't free. Taxpayers pay. And taxpayers pay (SET ITAL)more(END ...

San Francisco, a city long associated with exotic ideas, has been experimenting with cracking down on car thieves. Unlike some of the city's other adventures, this one is actually working out. Car break-ins are down 85% from 2023, and are down 50% the first three months of 2026, compared to ...

President Trump and Pope Leo are in a war of words right now — when they should be allies, not enemies. Both want peace, but the president intends to get it by winning a war against Iran, while the pope thinks the war isn't worth fighting. "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK ...