In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million. The deal was widely ridiculed. Critics called it "Seward's Folly," after the secretary of state and lead negotiator, William Seward. In hindsight, given the state's immense natural resources and strategic ...
This summer, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani described American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the American pro-Israel advocacy organization, as "monsters." More than 850 members of the Jewish clergy have signed an open letter calling on him to apologize. I sympathize with the impulse ...
Everybody, according to an old saying of unknown but apparently wise origin, is an expert at raising other people's kids. One child of recent national interest is the daughter of Nikole Hannah-Jones, the journalist who led "The 1619 Project," a controversial and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Earlier this month, America watched as Sen. Mitch McConnell was wheeled onto the Senate floor after being absent for nearly three months following his June 14 hospitalization. Whether or not McConnell is fit to do his job is debatable. What isn't debatable is that he had access to excellent ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: Have you ever discussed prion disease in your column? It afflicts one in 1 million people, swiftly kills its victims in a matter of days, and is incurable. People commonly know it as "mad cow disease." I recently lost a great friend to a prion disease, and she truly was one in ...
Conservatives expressed grave concern when director Greta Gerwig happily announced that her forthcoming movie "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" would star Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan — the lion that author C.S. Lewis clearly used as a Christ figure. This kind of gender confusion gives ...
