I had a great idea for a column this week. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. After about 20 minutes of deep soul-searching, it occurred to me that some of you might be wondering how I write these columns.

Twenty years! I’ve been writing this column for 20 years. As I said back on the 15th anniversary, “except for teaching, that’s the longest time I’ve ever devoted to a single activity.” And I’ve ...

I usually like to have a theme to my columns. For example, I might write a column that centers on widow’s benefits. Or another column might explain the Social Security disability program. But today, I ...

Tucson is arriving late to the data-center game. That makes us lucky. It means we can look on the proposed mega-development on the southeast side with a degree of detachment that other communities ...

In the fall of 1984, the New England prep school, St. George’s, held an all-school assembly. One of its few African-American students, a senior, rose to speak about Eleanor Bumpus, an elderly Black ...

Israeli tanks in a staging area in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on Sunday. (Ariel Schalit/AP) A few senior officials in Israel are starting to voice concern about the escalating, ...

In the absence of a coherent explanation for the slaughter of Iranian civilians, perhaps the Evangelical fundamentalist belief that we need to start a war in the Middle East to precipitate the Second ...

Like many people I know, I have a list that lives in the back of my head. A rather amorphous list, one that I’ve never really written down … but it’s there. And it brings me considerable satisfaction.

The widespread celebration is over now. And some of the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team's goodwill has diminished. Alexander Tamargo / Getty Images For a few hours on Sunday afternoon, the nation felt ...

The Hamas paragliders, who were tentacles of Iran, began today’s war on Oct. 7, 2023, igniting one of history’s most spectacular backfires. Iran’s regime and its terrorism multipliers, Hamas and ...