Beginnings, Endings, and the Words in Between

For better or worse, I was born and grew up as a white person. To speak on a racial issue probably leaves me open for criticism. I would...

If America is more an idea than a place, we may have to come to grips with the fact that we don’t live in the “idea of America” any more....

By now Trump’s latest tirade against the New York Times is well known. He has accused the newspaper of treason for "tipping off" the...

I get the total goal thing—13 is better than 12—is better than 11—is better than.... It's the ostentatious rejoicing at 13, 12, and 11 that

John Dean to most Americans not yet retired is someone their parents talked about, or more likely, didn't talk about.

Do you recognize these names: Rishik Gandhasri, Erin Howard, Saketh Sundar, Shruthika Padhy, Sohum Sukhatankar, Abhijay Kodali,...

Clue: They're not mentioned by title, and one of them is NOT "Highway to Hell." What happens to a nation whose leadership no longer...

...and Tiger Woods. At the risk of alienating every golfer, sports fan, and loyal American in loyal America, I just have to say—I’m...

I’ve always admired the guitar work of Joe Walsh, and though most recognize him as more a technical virtuoso than a great lyricists,...

I guess in her idle moments, when Kirstjen Nielsen wasn’t separating families, she was beating her head against a wall that is Donald...

Ever wish Representative Ilhan Omar would just shut up? Ever wish Donald Trump would do the same? More important, whose shutting up do...

The job description is cut-and-dried: release top secret government papers and face 115 years in a federal prison. That's what confronted...

Early on in Shakespeare's great tragedy Macbeth, the wife of the protagonist—aware that she must match the brutality of her husband in...

J.R. Romano, Chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party, is angry with state Democrats for not favoring the prosecution of Joe Biden to...

By now the Betsy DeVos/Special Olympics flap has been resolved, and since our news cycle does not allow for revisiting the inanity of the...

We waited, and we waited, and we waited. And in a sense we were the man who quits his job BEFORE the lottery numbers are drawn, then...

I’m currently writing a novel whose genesis is the 1979 crash of an American Airlines DC-10 at Chicago's O’Hare International Airport, an...

On Fox News last Sunday, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said "The president is not a white supremacist." U.S. ambassador...

This past week provided painful evidence of why maintaining a democracy is so difficult, and why the American dream may be more...

Since April, 2015, I changed my Brita water filter 22 times, spent several months at the beach, had four flu shots, published three...