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 ...

We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil liberties — and this ...

Events are moving fast. Seven days ago, as I write, Israel had not yet launched its first attacks on targets in Iran. Seven days from now, things may well have changed -- significantly. In such times, a historian's perspective may be helpful. Fortunately, the two most eminent ...