Beginnings, Endings, and the Words in Between

Spoiler alert—they didn't. Let's define Democrats. Are they the people who sent a steady stream of texts for the past six months asking...

Today, as the after-election panic continues to pick up speed, I was asked to e-sign a petition to further the No Kings Act, a piece of...

On mornings like this, it's good to be a Courant subscriber. A"daily" that's a day late on everything gives us one extra day to live in...

Seinfeld aficionados who watched Donald Trump sleepwalk and meander through his final weekend of doomsday forecasting and pornographic...

Since tens of millions of otherwise normal Americans are preparing to vote for Donald Trump (or have already done so), and since it seems...

Years ago, when I assigned essays of opinion, I advised my students not to use  I think  and  In my opinion  because they were redundant...

"What are the Real issues that exist today in these United States? It is the trend of the pseudo-intellectual government, where a select,...

Can someone tell Marjorie Taylor Greene that this story was made up? There are several voting blocs that Kamala Harris must try win over:...

I was thinking recently about the effectiveness of cults—how cultists explain their bizarre beliefs by latching onto something positive...

Ever since Kellyanne Conway added the term "alternative facts" to our lexicon in January 2017, the media has been unable to catch up, and...

The Geneva Conventions were established in 1949, and in 2024, they will celebrate their 75th anniversary.  Quietly, I hope. We toss...

Trying to reason with Trump advocates on moral, political, religious, or even financial grounds is a fool's errand. His followers don't...

You can change the opponent, but you can't change the truth—the person with the least to say interrupts the most and has a tangent for...

Against my better judgment, I became—I won't say "embroiled, maybe bemused(?) in a Facebook conversation concerning RFK Jr., a hero to...

America has always been a country of symbolic gestures, from dumping tea into Boston Harbor to flying jets in formation over football...

It's difficult to name the speech I enjoyed most at last week's Democratic National Convention (Michelle Obama's undiluted attack on the...

Project 2025...is a roadmap of Germany in the 1930s with a dollop of McCarthyism thrown in for modernity.

Independence Day was as good a time as any to examine what particular independence we purported to be celebrating and why we seemed so...

Joe Biden is wrong. His appeal to American voters that the future of democracy rests with crushing Donald Trump may be well intended, but...

It may be time to stop using the term "humanitarian crisis" for the ongoing events in Gaza. I don't think posterity will refer to it so...