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Christmas Eve, I started counting all the Israel/Hamas war coverage in the New York Times digital edition, including articles about collateral damage, such as the Claudine Gay fiasco at Harvard.  I stopped at 25 and circled back to two that raised questions similar to...

Forced today to place a wager on a Biden v. Trump contest in 2024, I would bet on Joe and by a decent margin, notwithstanding recent polls saying he trails in five of the six key swing states.  But now those who’ve seen Oppenheimer or read American Prometheus must...

Though the world’s attention has shifted to the Middle East from Republican Party dysfunction and its putative 2024 presidential nominee, that secondary concern still must be dealt with.  By considering what it would mean for U.S. foreign policy and military alliances...

The atrocity de la semaine in the scolding and scalding progressive media was committed by Jann Wenner, co-founder and former owner of Rolling Stone Magazine and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 2004. Within a nanosecond of...

Yesterday, as every September 11, I watched the televised photos of all the September 11, 2001 victims as their names were read by relatives at the annual memorial ceremony held at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan.  As always, the experience was intensely emotional,...

The silliness, misinformation and plain ignorance of law in the commentary about Fulton County Georgia’s racketeer influenced and corrupt organization (RICO) indictment of Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators is metastasizing and requires a “course” of treatment. ...