Here’s how I define unnerving times: When professionals who write, draw or talk about current events for a living worry that if they dare create anything satiric, […]
Columns/Opinion
Let’s all agree that America is more than ‘just OK’
It seems an inevitability that every year around the Fourth of July, certain media will publish a series of articles reminding people how unremarkable it is to […]
Teach girls to be competitive
When a swim coach challenged my 3-year-old daughter to race against her 5-year old brother, she beat him so badly that it seemed the toddler swim equivalent […]
Reining in ER bills and drug costs tall order
Lawmakers from both parties and President Trump have talked about their shared desire to end surprise medical bills and rein in rising prescription drug prices. But their […]
Is Mueller finally ready to spill some tea?
The announcement that former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III will testify before two House committees next month is significant only if Mueller goes back on his […]
Has Trump outdone Obama?
It took less than a week for informed opinion to settle the question: In ordering airstrikes against Iran on June 20 and then canceling that order at […]
Break chains in America of child marriage
On June 26, activists in wedding dresses and chains gathered at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., to press for passage of a bill to ban child […]
Biden still remains the Democrat to beat Trump
During the Thursday debate, Kamala Harris went straight for Joe Biden’s jugular over his alleged failures on race matters. The day after, however, Keisha Lance Bottoms, the […]
Kids shouldn’t be used as political pawns
When faced with two women who each claimed to be the mother of the same child, King Solomon announced he would slice the child in two and […]
Justices saw through ploy for question
In a stunning victory for the rule of law, a bare majority of the Supreme Court agreed that the Commerce Department had not adequately justified the addition […]