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Opinion

To your good health

Columns

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 66 years old and have had highly episodic and infrequent shooting pains in my outer right knee on and off for the past five or six years. It's like an intense burning sensation or electric shock to the bony outer part of my tibia directly below the knee, and it only lasts ...

Dear Annie

Columns

Dear Annie: I am almost 40 and trying to rebuild a healthier relationship with my dad. When I was a child, he was my hero, the person I looked up to and went to for advice. When I was about 10, he told me that I would probably have trouble getting along with him during my teenage years, but ...

Robert B. Reich

Columns

A recent casualty of Trump's efforts to silence media criticism is Eduardo Porter, one of the most thoughtful and intelligent critics of this heinous regime. Last week, Porter wrote his last column for The Washington Post. In a widely-circulated email, he explained why he was leaving the ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Vote Yes for a Safe Jail I am a voter and taxpayer in Houghton County but have lived other places and have experience related to local county jails. Years ago, I was asked to work at a local jail one day a week to substitute for the usual worker. I was a little afraid to work there, my idea ...

From the Desk of Dr. J

Columns

Those of us who grew up watching "The Cosby Show" as teens in the 1980s were extremely saddened to learn of Malcolm-Jamal Warner's tragic drowning in Costa Rica while on vacation with his family. Warner held iconic television status among Gen X, as he was most beloved for his role as Theo ...

Michael Barone

Columns

For a generation, Americans have had a historically large number of ex-presidents around, a possible source of counsel from one of only 45 people who have exercised the broad powers conferred by Article II of the Constitution. You might expect former presidents to supply elements of personal ...