PARIS — Gloria Steinem sent me a personal message not long ago thanking me for my "generous and encouraging" words that "make it worth getting older." Not worth it enough, apparently. Because one of the most visible faces of American second-wave feminism has just passed away peacefully at ...
It feels like just yesterday that America lost Charlie Kirk. I remember every detail vividly. Charlie and I were in daily contact that week, as he prepared for his next national campus speaking tour. I was part of an intimate Zoom meeting he had organized the night prior to its first ...
For those who remember the way savagery shattered serenity on Sept. 11, 2001, the last 25 years haven't dimmed the memory of the evil that occurred that day. One remembers the photos of the missing, murdered plastered on Manhattan's buildings and street poles and The New York Times obituaries ...
It's one thing for Trump to usurp powers that belong to Congress, quite another for him to usurp places that belong to all of us. I'm talking about his renaming and demolishing what we share in common. Trump said he "decided" to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America because he was ...
It's a time for fear. The United States is engaged in an undeclared war — one of which the public does not understand the true extent. The president has gone in without Congressional approval. Military leaders struggle with cabinet members, politicians and themselves about whether and how ...
In one of his Truth Social bombs, President Donald Trump insisted we should rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Canada refused to accept his trade negotiation terms. It obviously echoes his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It’s easy to find these whole ...
