As a Black American who is old enough to remember the last days of legal Jim Crow racial segregation, I pay special attention whenever I hear signs that in many American minds the Civil War never really ended. So does President Trump. That may help to explain why he took the extraordinary step ...

I am an Iran hardliner. But I'm struggling to understand how other hardliners can be so credulous about President Donald Trump's leadership of this war. It's as if you were stranded by the side of the road and accepted a ride from an obviously drunk driver. Earlier this month, the Wall ...

When the Republican Party has lost 30 state legislative special elections in a row since President Donald Trump's re-election, when all the governor elections in 2025 were also lost, and a historic number of Republicans in Congress have opted not to seek re-election, it has to make you think ...

When President Trump spoke at the Saudi Future Investment Initiative (last) Friday, he offered a pristine example of what he calls "the weave." What detractors take for incontinent verbal rambling is, in his own telling, genius-level embroidery of a rhetorical mosaic. While spinning his ...

It's not just Israel. One of the least convincing arguments of opponents of the Iran war is that it is a conflict initiated by the Jewish state for its own benefit — the U.S. is just along for the ride. This view not only discounts the U.S. interest in defanging Iran, but neglects that ...

"That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves." — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, ...