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Pride not about labels, but making sure kids feel loved

Just over a week ago, our family participated in the local pride parade with a group from my husband’s work. Before the parade, our son wanted to get a pride flag to wave. He has always loved flags and can identify the flags for most countries of the world. Flags are powerful symbols of ...

World Cup tourists see what too many Americans forgot

Americans are routinely told that our nation is hopelessly divided, irredeemably flawed and perhaps even in terminal decline. Public polling reflects this pervasive frustration, pessimism and anomie. If someone halfway around the world only followed the polls, he might be forgiven for believing ...

No matter where, aggressive taxes always disappoint

Last week, nearly every elite men’s tennis player skipped one of London’s marquee tournaments. Only one of the world’s top 10 showed up at Queen’s Club, the traditional Wimbledon warmup; stars including Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton were playing 300 ...

Campus chants can lead to synagogue attacks

Politicians, progressives and students revel in accusations that Israel is “genocidal” and “settler colonial.” Those accusations are ahistorical and false, yet they fan the flames of anti-semitism. When students march chanting from “the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free,” ...

Feminist fashionistas uncork ugliness vs. Usha Vance

One way our nation’s most “prestigious” newspapers show they’re Democratic Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their evaluations of the clothes of politicians (or their spouses). Robin Givhan of The Washington Post was a ...

This Trump term a murky, embarrassing, costly spectacle

Every time I get asked by a TV anchor what I think about the drama of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, my favorite “historical” headline from the Onion comes to mind: “World’s Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg.” And every time I do, I hear from defenders of the Trump ...