When Samantha Siegel’s best friend took her to see an old live oak tree on Johns Island in South Carolina, she had no idea it was about to change her life. They went to see a tree estimated to be 300-400 years old and known as the “Angel Tree.” It’s 65 feet tall, and it shades ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child’s success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase IQ? James ...

PARIS — U.S. President Donald Trump got so fed up with the Pentagon calling itself the “Defense Department” that he decided it needed a makeover. Apparently “defense” sounded a little too yoga-retreaty for his taste. “We had an unbelievable history of victory when it was ...

I had a different column planned for this week — on the same topic that’s in the title, as it so happens. But not five minutes before I sat down to write it, I heard that conservative commentator and speaker Charlie Kirk had been shot in the neck at a speaking event in Utah. Before I ...

The West Point Association of Graduates announced on June 11 that movie actor Tom Hanks would receive this year’s Sylvanus Thayer Award at a ceremony and parade this month hosted by the U.S. Military Academy. The award goes “to an outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and ...

In her response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city’s mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place. Mayor Vi Lyles called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman, “a tragic ...