Writer and director David Robert Mitchell’s “The End of Oak Street” begins with a summer block party, as families play outside in a large community that is not tight-knit. We watch as mom and friendly neighbor Denise (played by Anne Hathaway) have an ongoing war with an annoying ...
Every generation searches for answers. Young people have always challenged the status quo, questioned authority and sought a better future than the one they inherited. That impulse is not only understandable, it is often essential to a healthy democracy. It is how societies reform, innovate ...
My husband graduated with his bachelor's degree this summer at the age of 56. We ordered a cake and celebrated with friends and family. He had earned his associate's degree in accounting literally decades ago and had plans to continue his education, but life detoured him, as it likes to do. ...
When I attended a much different public school in suburban Maryland, there was a public service announcement on TV that asked: "It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" I was usually in bed at that hour on "school nights," but that question might be put a different way today: ...
The tragic deaths of Hayden Panettiere and Jason Arday can be tied to the same phenomenon. It's not new but has accelerated in today's influencer culture: youth's hunger for fame. Panettiere was an accomplished actress who, buried in depression and addiction, died from an apparent drug ...
WASHINGTON — Somebody stop him. You know who. The conqueror whose voice, face and deeds are inescapable. Donald Trump had never heard of William the Conqueror when he visited England, but he loved the word and the idea for his presidency. He also has Napoleon Bonaparte and Julius Caesar ...
