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Gordon Wood and the historians who told the real story of the founders

The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one more mark of the closure of a golden age of the historiography of the Revolutionary era. It's an occasion to reflect on the uniqueness, indeed the ...

Belfast Is burning, and the media won’t say why

Nearly three decades after the end of the Troubles, Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, is once again on fire. On Monday, June 8, a Sudanese "asylum" seeker attacked a local man on the street with a kitchen knife, slashing him across the face and neck. Graphic video of the attack, which ...

Why I don’t plan to stop drinking alcohol

Is a glass of wine with dinner going to increase your chance of getting cancer or another serious illness? For the past few years, we've been deluged with studies and news accounts suggesting that the answer is yes. This week, the USDA reinstated a caution in its dietary guidelines about ...

A requiem For privacy

When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The director of national intelligence is the head of ...

For Trump, it’s a color-blind man’s world

President Donald Trump is definitely color blind, as he can only see white, and as far as gender, it is men in all key roles. Maybe it has something to do with how Trump amassed large vote totals. White men carried Trump into the White House. Now, he's still defending an Anti-Weaponization ...

Trump’s message to farmers reveals a tractor-sized reality gap

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — "We love farmers. We love everything about you," U.S. President Donald Trump said to a group of Wisconsin farmers. Maybe because farmers, who deal in dirt-under-nails reality, are everything this administration vows to be — but consistently fails to ...