By JAMIE STIEHM Happy 64th birthday it was on Monday to the 44th president, Barack Obama. Effortlessly cool, the first Black president proved a soaring speaker up there with John F. Kennedy, and the bringer of the Affordable Care Act. Also on the record — Obama never played hard against ...

By TIM GRAHAM Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler announced on Monday he’s hanging up his Pinocchios and accepting a generous buyout after 27 years. “Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial ...

By CAL THOMAS It’s being described by the media as an “autopsy,” an examination by Democrats as to why they lost the last presidential election and a congressional majority. According to The New York Times, the autopsy will not include Joe Biden’s decision to seek a second term, or ...

By FROMA HARROP A dear millennial friend and I once had a fraught conversation. It came back to me upon reading that the demographic most receptive to socialist candidates and their far-left agenda was the urban “downwardly mobile elite.” My friend, the son of hard-working immigrants, ...

By BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP I first met Elise Carter at a public meeting in spring 2021. Elise sat with her colleague and friend Trinity Walsh in the auditorium of Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, where I had graduated in 1993. The community assembled to talk about a social ...

By JESSICA A. JOHNSON Those of us who grew up watching “The Cosby Show” as teens in the 1980s were extremely saddened to learn of Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s tragic drowning in Costa Rica while on vacation with his family. Warner held iconic television status among Gen X, as he was most ...