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A PBS documentary about William F. Buckley Jr. conveys both his intellectual force and his joyful charisma.
How tax withholding turned us into geese who can be plucked without squealing.
It is hard to overstate how radical it is for a president to behave in this way.
Obama failed to act when Syria deployed poison gas. Biden must not make the same error.
Instead of diversity, DEI policies promote a rigid ideological uniformity.
The federal government is making an arbitrary, nonsensical, and divisive system even more so.
The four-term senator from Connecticut and VP nominee understood that there are times when party loyalty asks too much.
In the Boston area, where I live, about 95 percent of the sun will be blocked by the moon during the solar eclipse that will cross North America next...
Most immigrants, authorized and unauthorized alike, are more law-abiding than native-born Americans.
On the cover of the current issue of The Economist is an Israeli flag, covered in grime, being whipped by a sandstorm in a deserted land. Above it, in...
Norman Borlaug, who was born on a farm in Iowa 110 years ago this week, is reckoned to have saved more lives than any man in human history —...
Ripping words out of context, prominent voices on the left and right alike keep pouring fuel on our incendiary civic discourse.
The Vermont senator looks at America’s global record and sees mostly failure and disgrace.
A member of Palestine Action destroyed a portrait of Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College in the U.K. — an act the anti-Israel group defended on...
The flap over Wendy's plan to test ‘dynamic pricing’ was a nothingburger.
After a century of failed foreign interventions, Haitians must be told that no one is coming to rescue them.
I have followed John Kerry’s career for 40 years, but I still cringe at things that come out of his mouth.
Suicide is a tragedy, whatever the reason, yet leftists praised Bushnell as a great moral exemplar.
Like all brave dissidents, his courage imbues others with the courage to speak truth to power.
Cuba’s indomitable heroine is a recipient of this year's International Women of Courage Award.
No one as old as William Henry Harrison had ever run for president. Even his supporters knew that was a problem.
Ozawa’s passion for American baseball was a subset of his affection for the United States.
Liam Morrison’s school said he couldn’t wear a "two-genders" T-shirt. The Constitution says he can.
How much disillusionment can our political system tolerate before it cracks up?
It is only one of the many contrasts presented by the Republican presidential contest, but it is particularly acute. Haley tells the world she would...
The only student group rejected this year was one organized to oppose anti-Jewish bigotry.
To the bureaucratic blob in Washington, allowing a measure of fun to intrude on highway driving would be anathema.
It is strictly illegal for public employees to strike. Why isn’t the law being enforced?
Communism rarely evokes the instinctive loathing that Nazism does. Why?
The real "1 percent" aren’t the superrich but those with influence, access, and a graduate degree.
There is nothing "inclusive" about penalizing or rewarding people on the basis of their race and gender.
A key figure in the government’s COVID-19 response admits that he was willfully blind.
Airline travel isn't nearly as comfortable, pleasant, roomy, and civilized as it once was. But it is a lot safer.
The chief threat to stability in Asia today is not Taiwanese independence but Chinese belligerence. The president should have said so.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has been linked to Islamist extremists.
In a new poll commissioned by the Deseret News, an astonishing 64 percent of Republicans surveyed said that Trump is a “person of faith.”
Like LBJ and Nixon, Donald Trump craved blind fealty from his aides. That is one reason his presidency was riddled with dishonor.
In the half-century since the law was enacted, only 3 percent of the animals and plants listed as endangered have recovered.
In Frank Capra’s beloved film, numerous characters, and even a house, get a second chance.
In a new survey, two-thirds of young adults describe Jews as "oppressors."
America's presidential debates, both during the primary campaign and before the general election, have become embarrassing farces.
With or without a deal on border policy, it is in America’s manifest interest to stand with Ukrainians in their fight to beat back Russia.
Opposition to British policy was justified. Destroying 342 crates of tea worth nearly $2 million in today’s money wasn’t.
For reasons I have never been able to understand, Canadians express an abnormal pride in their nation’s single-payer health care system.
However genocidal and powerful their enemies, the Jews and the Jewish faith have endured.
The undoing of Roe v. Wade did not undo the broad availability of abortion in America. And in states where abortion has been banned, more women are...
The ordinance bans sales of tobacco or vapes to anyone born after 1999 — forever.
Chet Darling was not only a happy warrior but a principled one.
Unsigned comments on social media can be vile but a law banning them would be far worse.
The auditor has marshaled Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, Donald Trump fans and Bernie Sanders fans into a force for reform on...