opinion

Sometimes life imitates art—and when life gets really ugly, it can channel an anti-utopian novel. Daily existence in North Korea over decades could have been scripted by George Orwell, while the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s mirrored Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” And today there are sad parallels between the …

The warm feelings on display in Paris and elsewhere around the world Sunday in response to the horrors of the past week, unfortunately, will do next to nothing to change the tide against Islamist terrorism. That explains why world leaders who support terrorism have no problem supporting Paris. Palestinian leader …

In researching the anchor baby segment for today I found it fascinating to learn that the United States and Canada are the only two developed nations to still offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil. Not a single European county follows the same practice. Yes its in the …

Life is beautiful! Yes, gorgeous scenery helps, but taking time to sit back and be thankful for even the smallest things is a worthwhile endeavor I’ve become better at…post 40! We all live such fast-paced lives with technology only putting us in an even faster mode. Sometimes it’s almost impossible …

Perhaps it started with the O.J. Simpson case, or, as I prefer to call it, the Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman case. That distinction matters, because the victims and their families were erased in the spectacle. Despite the nation’s obsession with every gruesome detail, there was no “justice” for them. …

President Donald Trump’s focusoncrimeacross America is timelyandnecessary. It’s epidemic in many blue cities in our country,andsomething must,andcan, be done about it. His crackdown in Washington, D.C., proves that dramatic reductions incrimein cities acclimatized to perpetual lawlessnessandviolence are possible, butonly if you have the political courage to do so. Next up …

As someone whose life’s work is helping small businesses navigate our nation’s complex tax system, I have witnessed firsthand how the Internal Revenue Service has become an outsized force that too often targets those least equipped to fight back. While the agency has long maintained that its enforcement efforts are …

“God ain’t got no power over this hit. God got no power here.” The man gestured like a royal but the scene he revealed was the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. The man then sat down on an overturned milk crate, …

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recentlydeclaredthat President Donald Trump’s administration is considering declaring an emergency situation forhousing.He pointedouttheweakest summer home sales in a decade, withmore than 15%of transactions falling through in July,thehighest cancellation rate since record-keeping commencedin 2017. Prices, though below pandemic levels,arestill too lofty for working- and middle-class Americans. Bessent …

On this, the second anniversary of the massacre in Israel following the invasionfrom Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists, all commentaries about that day of horrors, should begin by recalling the specifics of that attack — its immediate toll, the brutality of the mayhem and the extraordinary cruelty of killers …