WASHINGTON -- The old lament that everybody talks about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it was never more appropriate than now. The summer heat that is currently torching Europe and and North America has come to President Biden’s doorstep in a way that demands much more than ...

How inevitable is a third consecutive nomination of Donald Trump? Partisan commentators, when it suits their purposes, tend to assume it is so. Republicans who remain supporters of the 45th president point to data showing he remains popular among his party’s voters. They also recall how ...

Democrats have been looking for a political lifeline and believe that the Dobbs case overturning Roe v. Wade is it. The problem is that their radicalism makes them out of step on this issue, as they are on so many others. A party that exists in its own echo chamber and that is more and ...

Gas prices are down some. That is the good news. The bad news is inflation is now at a 41-year high. After months of telling everyone that presidents have no ability to affect gas prices, President Joe Biden now wants credit for gas and no blame for inflation. Things really could be going ...

The period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was marked, to be sure, by increasing tensions between mine labor and management, as we’ve been discussing. But that same period was also marked by technological advances that allowed for old, abandoned mines to be revisited, with ...

We have a big medical mess that will cost women their lives and physicians their competency. That realization is what stopped me in my tracks as I listened to Dr. Toni M. Ganzel, Dean of the University of Louisville School of Medicine speak to the Kentucky Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary ...