I'm old enough to remember when corporate lobbyists swarmed Capitol Hill. I also remember when half the members of Congress who retired got lucrative lobbying jobs taking their old chums out for meals or drinks and selling them on whatever the corporate backers wanted. No longer. Now, the ...

Dear Annie: I love your column and am writing to offer a different point of view for the woman whose family does not celebrate her birthday or Mother's Day or Christmas the way she wants. She says she gives them presents, but they don't reciprocate. Well, I have a friend who goes ...

Lately, when I tell people that I am a writer, the conversation inevitably turns to artificial intelligence. People want to know if AI will replace journalists and take over everything from writing newspapers to books. I don't think it will, and here's why. AI can be a useful tool. I use an ...

Catching the tiger by the tail, like catching lightning in a bottle, is a difficult task. More difficult is letting go of the tiger's tail. In 2015, President Donald Trump wove together a collection of grievances against the ruling elite in Washington, D.C. and rode into office intent on ...

The nation is afflicted with an epidemic of mal-parenting. How do we know? The persistence of shocking levels of juvenile delinquency and crime. The posterchild case is Ethan Crumbley, guilty of murdering four students at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan in 2021 and sentenced to ...

This week, Tucker Carlson spoke at Turning Point USA's big event in Tampa, Florida. There — without naming President Donald Trump — he unleashed on the Trump administration, suggesting that they were covering up a child sex trafficking ring and denigrating Trump's victories thus far. "If ...