Americans focused on inflation seem especially tuned into the price of gasoline. While inflation has been fading away, many prices remain higher than they were two years ago. But not for gasoline. That’s getting cheaper. The average price at the pump is now about $3.26, which is down ...

Last week, the German newspaper Bild broke a story that was too unsurprising to be much of one. According to Bild, a document seized from a computer used by Hamas strongman Yahya Sinwar summarized Sinwar’s strategy for pressuring Israel into a ceasefire deal that would enable Hamas to ...

Famously, a message from President Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, John Hay, electrified the 1904 Republican convention: “This Government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.” Ion Perdicaris, a wealthy Greek-American, had been kidnapped in Morocco by a bandit named Ahmed ...

When the story broke about the Apalachee High School shooting in Barrow County, Georgia, this tragedy hit home for me since Barrow County is only half an hour away from Clarke County, where I attended high school. Teachers and students from my high school alma mater, Clarke Central, were ...

If you don’t tell a lie, my father used to say, you won’t have to worry about which version of your story you told last. Right, I agreed, but, with an attitude like that, ol’ Dad was well advised to avoid going into politics. That advice came to mind amid the unfolding saga of an ...

As I try to understand public opinion in yet another presidential election year with former President Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, I see an anomaly. On one hand, the polls look very much like the 2020 and 2016 election results. Trump trails Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.9 ...