Shortly after I wrote my recent column about Ohio State University football players baptizing students at an “Invitation to Jesus” event in Columbus, a friend emailed me with a link to a story featuring reporting from award-winning journalist Lisa Ling. This particular story, by Ling and ...

The brutal Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, left some 1,200 dead. I never would have predicted that, two years later, Hamas would continue to imprison hostages, refuse to release the bodies of dead detainees and still be rewarded with increasing recognition of a Palestinian state. ...

The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk. But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed by the same misguided sense of right and wrong that brought to fruition the horrible act. That is — who do we blame? Homicide is ...

“What I’ve tried to do,” Boston mega-philanthropist Jack Connors told an obituary writer interviewing him as he lay dying of pancreatic cancer, “is to make sure that the folks whose net worth is $10 get a break, too.” For decades, the son of a working-class Irish-American family who ...

On Aug. 5, 1997, President Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress, led by Speaker Newt Gingrich, enacted the Balanced Budget Act. This bipartisan agreement aimed to balance the federal budget by 2002. Most of the credit goes to Gingrich because Clinton had vetoed previous ...

The sign outside the little Baptist congregation in Sewickley read simply: “In Memory of Charlie Kirk 1993-2025.” It was one of dozens of images on social media feeds showing houses of worship honoring Kirk since he was murdered while speaking at Utah Valley University. On the steps of ...