The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long career, began improbably early in life and extended into years of repudiation by his fellow partisans, is "unintimidated." He was unintimidated by ...

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to "the voice of God," the phrase once associated with legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite at the height of broadcast news. This makes it ...

Among my growing list of improper uses of the English language is the response I get when telling a restaurant server or anyone else "thank you." The usual response has been for as long as I remember, "you're welcome." For the young, especially, it has become "no problem." Why would thanking ...

Last week, a 28-point "peace plan" for the Russia-Ukraine war surfaced. It was apparently fleshed out in Miami over cocktails by President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Witkoff's Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev. Many critics immediately derided ...

The chaotic confrontation in Dearborn, Michigan (recently) — when a demonstrator attempted to burn a Qur'an and Muslim counter-protesters surged — was more than a brief flash of drama. Along with other recent controversies in Arab-majority Dearborn, such as when the Muslim mayor told a ...

I'll start by making a few things clear: I love my father, I love cooking and I love Thanksgiving. And now that the throat-clearing is done, I can move on to the complaining. Because of all dishes in all the holidays on the calendar, there's nothing like the Thanksgiving turkey for ...