Finally, after six months, fortresslike fencing around the Capitol will come down, House Sergeant-at-Arms William Walker announced this week. Since early January, the 8-foot nonscaleable wall has…
One of the greatest joys I’ve had as a child was going to my local, public library. I remember my 10-year-old self excitedly bursting through the double…
The waves of progressive enmity directed at Israel during its recent counteroffensive against Hamas started as a low-level frustration. That morphed into an anger that became a…
While job growth beat expectations this past month, there is still much improvement to go as the country works to get itself out from the pandemic’s lingering…
I’ve been in show business for 30 years, and the way it works is this: You spend many months, sometimes years, on a project, writing and developing…
In December 2002, as America entered the second year of what would become its longest war, Donald Rumsfeld was riding high as the wartime secretary in charge…
Joseph Conrad once observed that to a sailor, all foreign shores are the same. Protest marches in cosmopolitan enclaves have a similar generic quality. In early June,…
In the aftermath of the first Persian Gulf War, an exultant President George H.W. Bush told an audience of U.S. legislators that “by God, we’ve kicked the…
Moments before screening the new Netflix film The Ice Road, I remarked to my wife that a picture in which Liam Neeson speeds an 18-wheeler across subarctic…
A federal judge’s decision to block a recent Florida law that penalizes social media companies for stopping politicians’ posts could imperil the future of such bills. In…
