Society has done a terrible job guiding teenage boys as they grow into men. Local communities and society more broadly have something important to offer teenagers — guidance. A 15-year-old has never been 35 or 45. Swamped with hormones and a still-developing brain, he has a poor ...
"If they ever make a sequel to 'Dumb and Dumber'," Rahm Emanuel mused to a packed hall at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire last week, "there's a lot of competition in this administration for who gets to play the lead." If there's one thing Emanuel isn't, it's dumb. He's not in ...
So much for journalistic objectivity. The BBC science editor covering the launch of Artemis II couldn't contain her enthusiasm when the first plumes of smoke spread out from the launch pad. "Oh, my goodness! Oh, my goodness!" she exclaimed, clapping like a schoolgirl. As the rocket lifted ...
As a Black American who is old enough to remember the last days of legal Jim Crow racial segregation, I pay special attention whenever I hear signs that in many American minds the Civil War never really ended. So does President Trump. That may help to explain why he took the extraordinary ...
It's not just Israel. One of the least convincing arguments of opponents of the Iran war is that it is a conflict initiated by the Jewish state for its own benefit — the U.S. is just along for the ride. This view not only discounts the U.S. interest in defanging Iran, but neglects that ...
Two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalem on a Sunday with crowds cheering on the arrival of a king. Riding on a white donkey, the crowd laid palm branches on the ground for him. Before the week was out, Jesus would be dead. Many of those who heralded his arrival would, by ...
