In the coming weeks, leaves will fall, plants will shrivel, temperatures will sink and Americans will experience growing dread over the unplea…
”Debt is the worst poverty.” — Thomas Fuller, 17th-century English churchman and historian
The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett provide a fitting warmup act to the presidential election that will follow…
When Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate back a couple of months ago, it was historic.
“The country is in a dangerous place. Our trust in each other is ebbing. Hope seems elusive.”
Joe Biden and the Democratic Party believe they are on their way to a decisive victory on Nov. 3, and they may be right. He could find himself…
Halloween, like so much else, will be different this year from previous years, but it also offers an analogy that can be applied to the curren…
New York City is becoming an economic basket case.
I know that social media is not the real world, just as Kim Kardashian is not your average working mother. But we have all started to spend pa…
Late last month, North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un issued an apology. In a letter, Kim expressed sincere regret for “disappointing” South Korea…
President Trump’s infection with COVID-19 adds to a year no fiction writer could have contrived. The image of Trump last Friday walking out of…
President Trump was his own worst enemy at Tuesday night’s big debate.
President Donald Trump just rolled out his new “Black Economic Empowerment Platinum Plan.”
When life serves you lemons, you make lemonade.
I had initially thought of Tuesday night's first presidential debate as the equivalent of a heavyweight boxing match, something like the class…
Dedication of the official memorial to General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower occurred on Sept. 17. Relatively little media attention was …
One of the chief dividing lines in American politics is how Supreme Court justices interpret the Constitution. Rarely has that line been brigh…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has made himself largely unavailable to questions from reporters since before his nomination. In c…
I just signed up to be a mentor at my law school, and did something that is atypical for me: Display a preference for female law students. It …
Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, says, “Our No. 1 goal must be to communicate the stakes of this Supreme Court fight to the American peo…
My son Gideon has now finished both his ACT and SAT college entrance exams (scoring at an impressive percentile somewhere between "It's … it's…
Autumn has arrived — and it couldn't come soon enough.
Joe Vadala’s question was heartbreaking in every way imaginable.
Britain’s government is planning to violate international law.
I do not believe that there are any undecided voters left in Pennsylvania. I say this after watching the recent Town Hall in Philadelphia, whe…
The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives conservatives and Republicans what they claim to have wanted since judicial act…
At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, a little-known state senator from Illinois electrified the crowd with a speech proclaiming our fun…
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman observed in a column he wrote in 1996 that “no two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fo…