Foreign Policy
Zelensky strikes back
”Our strategy to go after this army is very, very simple. First, we’re going to cut it off, and then we’re going to kill it.” The words…
April 11, 2023
Magazine - Life & Arts
The phantom king of the Delta blues
Very little was once known about the king of the Delta blues. Many of these gaps have gradually been filled in. Robert Johnson was born in 1911…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Searching for the Easter drink
Christmas has Santa Claus. Easter has an oversize rabbit. Christmas has gifts wrapped in colorful paper. Easter has hard-boiled eggs hidden under bushes. Christmas has an abundance…
Healthcare
A new Obamacare fight
The Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, has survived a series of legal and political landmines. The Supreme Court in 2012 upheld the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
How Christianity happened
People find it hard to believe that Christianity had such an inauspicious beginning in A.D. 33 with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. He had only a…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump indictment leads GOP field to unite around former president
When former President Donald Trump appeared in a Manhattan courtroom to be charged with 34 counts, most of the rest of the likely 2024 Republican presidential field…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Fire and Primstone
Easter Sunday, for Americans of the Christian faith, and, as a friend of mine puts it, Christians of the American faith, is a lovely springtime ritual. In…
Healthcare
Biden’s final pandemic flip-flop is to end it
President Joe Biden has been accused by conservatives throughout his presidency of flip-flopping on federal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing it when needed to explain a…
Healthcare
United States of Hypochondria
When we look back on America in the first decades of the 21st century, we can say that Woody Allen saw it all coming. Although countless Hollywood…
