Beginnings, Endings, and the Words in Between

Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that Kim Jong-un was not personally aware of the detainment, mistreatment, and eventual torture...

I refused to be sucked into the entire Michael Cohen debacle yesterday, compelling or not, but I saw enough. And I did see the sickest of...

To all those who voted for Trump in 2016 and who still believe he’s good for America, let me respectfully suggest a data cleanse. You...

Put aside for a moment the truth of what befell or did not befall actor Jussie Smollett, and I’ll put aside the fact that I had never...

It appears that, throughout the history of crime, practitioners of the craft have made one universal, overriding mistake: they’ve tried...

By now the story is widely known—the corporate mega-giant looking for a new spot, asking for some give-backs, and promising to revitalize...

We all want instant results, and we’re all frustrated by the lack of adequate gun legislation in the year that has elapsed since the...

You've seen it happen—a team decides on a youth movement and the results are bad. The knee-jerk fan reaction is "bring back the...

Last fall I had the—well let's call it pleasure—of seeing the Queens of the Golden Mask at the the Ivoryton Playhouse here in...

We accept the truth of any State of the Union address at our own risk. Presidents throughout history have used the State of the Union...

On Saturday I wrote a fairly lengthy opinion piece on why Virginia's Ralph Northam should not resign the governorship—that indiscretions...

In Paradise Lost (Relax, honest—there’s no test after nor will you be forced to write a paper.) Let me begin again. In Paradise Lost—in...

At the risk of sounding like some old guy whose million discrete thoughts have coalesced into a few platitudes, let me say this: the...

It does become tiresome after a while, evoking 1984 every time Trump declares anything he says as truth by definition, or evoking Richard...

It happens all the time in the NFL: a player scores a touchdown, then waves a ball in the defender's face, thereby incurring a...

By now you've all seen the photo. It resembles a snowman that children lost interest in completing, leaving it either limbless or...

On an evening in March, 1932, a kidnapping occurred. Maybe there were other similar incidents that evening—crimes are seldom discrete—but...

You can’t enter a new year without undoing all the mistakes you made in the previous one. Forthwith my apologies for the missteps of...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday called the latest "immigration death,"— this time an 8-year-old Guatemalan...

The day Donald Trump promised to withdraw our troops from Syria, he pointed skyward—apparently invoking veterans who had fought and...