10+ hour, 11+ min ago  (1176+ words) The "Emperor Has No Clothes" wake-up call, How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law and the status quo? After all, most have little public support " and are not Western nations supposedly rationally governed?...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (196+ words) Trump's catalysts for a booming 2026 economy are already in place. Whether the pseudo-recession of 2025-2026 works as well as the fake 1992 recession now hinges on whether the Trump campaign learns from the past and from now on fixates on the economy....

3+ week, 10+ hour ago  (837+ words) In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union. Not all Unionists believed that…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (152+ words) Gender issue aren't always so simple. Victor Joecks raised important questions about how we understand gender, but biology isn't quite as simple as "male or female" checkboxes ("Why those on the left still can't define "woman'," Jan. 16 column). Most of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (851+ words) NEW YORK " The Trump administration has made abrupt and sweeping cuts to substance abuse and mental health programs across the country in a move that advocates said will jeopardize the lives of some of the country's most vulnerable. The Substance…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1004+ words) A slaying on the Las Vegas Strip, a skydiving crash and a shooting at a local gym were among Harrison's most memorable stories of the year. A YouTuber was accused of killing a rival content creator and his wife on…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1081+ words) The medicine for decline requires unity, honesty, courage and action " virtues now in short supply Western civilization arose in the eighth century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (949+ words) Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their social welfare state system critiqued by upstart, crass Americans. Their pique only increases as…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (648+ words) The increase in polarization mirrors the growth of government. Politicians and policy experts like to talk about "root causes" of crime, homelessness, poverty, rising prices and other problems. If they want to understand the root cause of political polarization, they…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1025+ words) The current generation "Z" " those now roughly between 13 and 28 years old " is becoming our 21st-century version of the "Lost Generation." Members of Gen Z are often nicknamed "Zoomers," a term used to describe young adults who came of age in…...