You know there is a holiday just around the corner when your social media fills up with surveys about favorite candies for that holiday are in each state. They always say “the survey says” and I wonder how many people in each state took part in the survey? They should use empirical data like the amount of each candy sold in each state.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is an honorable man, impeccable jurist and great legal mind. Calls for him to be impeached, recuse himself on certain cases, or resign from the U.S. Supreme Court are preposterous and without merit.
Last week’s arrival of April also ushered in National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a yearly reminder formally established in 1983 that heartbreaking treatment of a highly vulnerable population is often much closer than one might imagine.
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott’s news conference at the Texas-Mexico border had barely ended Wednesday when media outlets seized on his announcement that he planned to send apprehended undocumented immigrants on chartered buses to the nation’s capital.
Better late than never, the Biden administration has discovered the benefits of using energy as a tool of American global strategy. One positive outcome of the president’s March trip to Europe was the announcement of a new partnership with the European Union to cut Europe’s dependence on Russian energy.
We’ve reached an inflection point in the United States. Toxic polarization, once dismissed as the normal back-and-forth of political debate, has gone beyond words and boiled over into violence. We saw the results in real time on Jan. 6, 2021, and in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
President Biden has nominated Caroline Bouvier Kennedy to serve as United States ambassador to Australia. Earlier, she served as our ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 where she received high marks, demonstrating diplomatic skill, political savvy and personal grace.
Is it just me or does it seem like every Monday brings with it the chance for rain and thunderstorms? As if Mondays weren't hard enough now we have to add gloomy weather to them? I was never a fan of Mondays. Even back in school, I hated them.
Russia launched a brutal, unprovoked and senseless aggression against Ukraine in February. The resulting Western response has been resolute, swift and expansive: More than a thousand people and organizations have been sanctioned, and wide trade and financial sanctions have been put in place.
We have a shared curiosity about our past. Maybe not only ours, but that of others as well.