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On this Christmas Day, 2024, we in America have much to be grateful for:

For a country where liberty is still valued and where prosperity is still possible.

For our families, friends, loved ones, colleagues and coworkers.

For the kindness of strangers.

For those whose inspiration, talent and craft have provided the stories, books, music, ...Read more

In the wake of the collapse of the Syrian government, CNN reporter Clarissa Ward and her team were in Damascus last week, looking for any sign of American journalist Austin Tice, alleged to be held in a Syrian prison since 2012. Although they did not find Tice, they did find a man alone in a cell of an abandoned prison. He claimed to ...Read more

The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week is generating new headlines by the hour. The suspect in the murder -- 26-year-old Luigi Mangione -- was found in Pennsylvania and will likely be extradited to New York to face murder charges.

Thompson's murder has produced shocking support for his accused killer. ...Read more

Years ago, I read a book by the historian Barbara Tuchman called "Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour." It's worth a read for anyone wondering about the origins of the present-day conflicts in the Middle East.

Like so many other contemporary catastrophes, the ongoing wars between Israel and Arab nations are ...Read more

Data analysts are already publishing available information about sex/gender, income, education and racial/ethnic breakdowns of Americans who voted for Kamala Harris versus those who voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election this year.

Another set of data explores the important relationship between religious beliefs and support for ...Read more

Across traditional and social media, in public forums and (no doubt) in private offices, Democrats are licking their wounds from the trouncing they received in last week's elections.

It isn't just that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris lost the Electoral College and the popular vote -- the first time a Republican ...Read more

What are some of the most important takeaways from Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election this week? Certainly not what the media are telling you. But there are enduring lessons that this election makes clear:

1. Republicans had a great legal ground game this time. After the 2020 debacle, Republican National Committee co...Read more

During former President Donald Trump's term, it became shockingly clear how much better America could have been -- for decades. America under Trump was a country with no new wars, a booming economy, energy independence, low unemployment across all demographics, rising wages, renewed manufacturing and domestic production, and controlled ...Read more

Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris has been struggling to articulate issues that resonate with voters in the final days of the campaign. Other than bland assurances about "an opportunity economy" and growing up "a middle-class kid," the only issue Harris seems both emphatic and explicit about is abortion.

At a recent rally in...Read more

One of the most frequent complaints about contemporary American politics is how contentious and divisive our political discourse has become. For years, we've read articles about how disagreements over politics are dividing colleagues at work, poisoning friendships, weakening familial ties, spoiling holidays and even ending marriages.

A 2021 ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a law banning legacy and donor considerations in admissions at all private colleges and universities in the state. California is the fifth state to do so, following Colorado, Illinois, Maryland and Virginia. Newsom praised the law, saying, "The California Dream shouldn't be accessible to just a lucky ...Read more