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When Congress impeaches and removes a federal official, the Constitution says, "the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law." While you might think that clause means impeachment and removal do not preclude criminal prosecution, former President Donald Trump's ...Read more

The 2024 World Happiness Report, which is a collaboration with Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the World Happiness Report Editorial Board, found that young Americans under 30 are much more displeased with their lives than adults over 60. The startling fact about this ...Read more

In his last protest march, Martin Luther King Jr. led a parade of demonstrators down Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, lending his support to striking sanitation workers. After a few young Black men started breaking storefront windows, the indiscriminate police response killed one suspected looter and injured dozens of protesters.

Under a ...Read more

As excitement was building up for the solar eclipse in Ohio the past two weeks, I saw an electric sign board that piqued my interest while commuting to work in Lima. The sign was placed on a corner in Huntsville, a village that I pass through with a small population of just over 400. It was from a local church and read "God in the eclipse," with...Read more

"On abortion," The New York Times claims, former President Donald Trump "chose politics over principles." In reality, Trump's recent clarification of his abortion position is one of those rare instances when political expedience coincides with constitutional principles.

In a Truth Social video posted on Monday, Trump said each state should be...Read more

One of the recently released spring biopics that I looked forward to is the Netflix film on Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman to be elected to Congress in 1968. Simply titled "Shirley," the film takes viewers on an intense and dramatic journey of Chisholm's 1972 Democratic presidential campaign, a campaign she had no shot to win...Read more

Three years after New York legalized marijuana, unauthorized pot shops outnumber licensed retailers by more than 20 to 1. Legislators and regulators could have avoided this "disaster," as Gov. Kathy Hochul rightly calls it, if they had learned from the mistakes of other states that have struggled to displace the black market.

Disregarding ...Read more

[Jesus] said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God. Luke 9:20

I am reflecting on this momentous question that Jesus asked His disciples as I observe Easter this year. It is a question that every Christian should be able to answer boldly and passionately regarding the One in whom they confidently ...Read more

Like many sports fans this year, I have been in awe of the on-court accomplishments of Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark. Her highlight reels on YouTube show her draining "logo threes" on the Hawkeyes' home court combined with precision backdoor passes to set up her teammates for easy layups.

The timing for Clark topping LSU legend ...Read more

When federal officials persistently pressured social media platforms to delete or downgrade posts those officials did not like, a government lawyer told the Supreme Court on Monday, they were merely offering "information" and "advice" to their "partners" in fighting "misinformation." If the justices accept that characterization, they will be ...Read more

Ava DuVernay's acclaimed film "Origin" has been digitally released, which should hopefully attract more viewers to examine its intricate themes connecting American racism to global caste systems. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," "Origin" takes its audience on a riveting ...Read more

Last month, New Zealand scrapped a law that would have gradually prohibited tobacco products by banning sales to anyone born after 2008. But Brookline, a wealthy Boston suburb, will implement a similar scheme now that the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has cleared the way.

Brookline's bylaw, which bans sales of "tobacco or e-...Read more

One of the concerning health headlines toward the end of 2023 was the loneliness epidemic that is affecting millions of Americans, causing premature death in many cases. And it's not just the U.S. that is grappling with so many adults and young people feeling alone and isolated. The World Health Organization declared loneliness a "pressing ...Read more

For the past two years, students in my Black history Sports Icons course have watched Regina King's Academy-nominated film "One Night in Miami" to begin our section on Muhammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay. Since "One Night in Miami" has a detailed focus on Malcolm X, I suggested to students who had some extra time between their class assignments ...Read more

A social media platform is like a telegraph, Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson told the Supreme Court on Monday, defending his state's restrictions on content moderation by Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube. Paul Clement, speaking on behalf of the tech trade group NetChoice, rejected that comparison, saying a social media platform...Read more

A significant number of Gen Z Americans and college students appear to be doing a "pivot" back to religion, according to Jay Richards, the director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at the Heritage Foundation.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Richards explains that this is a trend that differs from ...Read more

As Donald Trump tells it, all of the civil and criminal cases against him are part of a Democratic conspiracy to keep him from returning to the White House. Although some of the many charges against him involve credible allegations of serious crimes, they have been overshadowed recently by two New York cases that are much weaker.

In 2016, ...Read more

One of the Black history documentaries that I had marked on my to-see list is the recently released PBS "Gospel" series that is hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

"Gospel," as Gates ...Read more

Oregon is considering legislation that would recriminalize low-level drug possession, reversing a landmark reform that voters approved in 2020. Although critics of that ballot initiative, Measure 110, cite escalating drug-related deaths, decriminalization is not responsible for that trend.

Opioid overdose fatalities have been rising ...Read more

Controversy has arisen again regarding the upcoming performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" that is scheduled for Super Bowl 58. During last year's game, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," also referred to as the "Black national anthem," was sung by Sheryl Lee Ralph, affectionately known to "Abbot Elementary" fans as "Miss Barbara." Grammy Award-...Read more