Several of you responded to my “Sunday thought” by saying that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that corporations are people – entitled to the same First ...

I wonder what those 15th-century monks who slaved away copying the Holy Scriptures by hand thought when they saw the first Bible produced on Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. They had believed themselves to be irreplaceable in spreading the gospel. Now there was a cheaper, faster, more ...

The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long career, is “unintimidated.” Cheney, who died early this month, was unintimidated by his rise to become White House chief of staff at age 34 in ...

A friend recently told me they were dreading the holidays. I get it. Holidays can be stressful. The idea of socializing with relatives you don’t see all the time or don’t always get along with can feel a bit daunting. Whether it’s because of political disagreements, a divorce or another ...

Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Recently, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of water when a “sudden and substantial” flood sent millions of gallons into the Rolling Thunder Mine. Lipscomb lived up to his life of ...

In 2006, a few days before Christmas, doctors announced my wife had six months to live. She had, they said, a rare form of cancer that had spread to her lungs. There was really nothing that could be done. We had a one-year-old and I had been told my job was coming to an end the same day of the ...