In 1904, the U.S. citizen Ion Perdicaris was kidnapped by Ahmed al-Raisuni, leader of a tribal confederacy in Morocco. President Theodore Roosevelt sent seven U.S. Navy warships carrying a contingent of Marines to the Moroccan port of Tangiers. At the Republican convention that summer, John ...

Watching the year-end budget fights in Congress as we await the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, I find myself wondering: Will this era be remembered as the time when Trump was president and Elon Musk ran the country? Trump earned such nicknames as “Captain Chaos” and worse ...

There’s a quote on my desktop from the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius that I’m making the subject of my New Year’s resolution in 2025. It goes like this: “How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does ...

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 ...