We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the President of the United ...

A seasoned veteran of Chicago politics once told me that it often takes Democrats a couple of four-year cycles out of office before they can pull their fractious factions together into a winning coalition. There's a lot of truth in that, and that's why I am not surprised to see the off-year ...

America's 249th birthday Friday will be no party. Call it bittersweet at best. The guns of Gettysburg were stilled on July 4, 1863, after the Union Army whipped Robert E. Lee and Confederates brigades in a raging three-day theater of civil war. Now somehow, without ever reading it, ...

Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal did a rare story on the Ukraine war, though it was buried on page A 10, after a front-page teaser. That has been the pattern until Russia launched a massive drone attack against Ukraine on Sunday which attracted some media attention. Otherwise, media has ...

If you asked my dad the top three causes of illness worldwide, here's what he'd say: No. 3: Walking around inside the house barefoot. No. 2: Leaving the house with wet hair. No. 1: Air conditioning. I understand not being accustomed to air conditioning. He didn't grow up with it. In Greece, ...

Zohran Mamdani's lead in first choices in New York City's ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth and fifth choices of trailing candidates are allocated to candidates voters ranked lower, mean that he'll be the Democratic nominee for mayor of the ...