Every winter, it seems, a number of people fall through ice they thought was safe. That's what happened recently in Marquette's Lower Harbor when someone fell through ice while reportedly skating. Many experienced ice fisherman know that as a practical matter, “safe ice” is an oxymoron, or ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an ...

Legal scholars have many lenses through which to examine the Constitution. Lawyers need to master about 150 Supreme Court decisions in order to have a sufficient understanding of the government. But most of what lawyers have studied is theory — how the Constitution is supposed to work, as ...

By MONA CHAREN Syndicated columnist As we survey the wreckage of Trump’s second term, it is often said that HALF THE COUNTRY voted for this, or worse, HALF THE COUNTRY is fine with this. That isn’t true. MAGA is a bit of a moving target, but a recent Economist/YouGov poll found that ...

By ERICK ERICKSON Syndicated columnist Speaking at The New York Times, their actually conservative columnist Ross Douthat said, “I want to tell you a secret. One that most conservatives on the internet don’t want you to know. A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the ...

By ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Syndicated columnist For years, the public conversation about Jeffrey Epstein has been flattened into a single, horrifying dimension: sex crimes. Those crimes were real, brutal and unforgivable. The women and girls he exploited, often coerced, drugged and manipulated ...