Juneteenth came and went last Thursday, but curiously something seemed to be missing from the annual celebration: a cordial salute from the president of the United States. Well, sure, you might say at this point in our political history, after all, he's Donald Trump. What do we expect? The only ...

Let me offer some rare praise for Donald Trump. His attack on Iran's nuclear development sites was carefully executed. Nobody outside a tight circle knew about it in advance. And he was wise in shifting the talk into calls for peace. We don't know whether the bunker busters reached all the ...

In his book on America's hitherto most accomplished demagogue, "No Sense of Decency," journalist Robert Shogan concluded that the principal reason America's favorable view of Joseph McCarthy eventually collapsed was "the increased revulsion of many Americans for McCarthy as a result of what ...

For 20 years, President Donald Trump has maintained that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. Much of the Western world, from European powers to American presidents, has given lip service to that idea, but has done little to restrict Tehran's theocratic leaders from building a bomb. Though Iran ...

Before we start, it's important that we all know what "Juventus" is. They're an Italian soccer team, based in Turin, and they're one of the top squads in the country. Some of the sport's most recognizable athletes, like Michel Platini, Roberto Baggio and Zinedine Zidane, have played for ...

The suspect in the Minnesota murders, Vance Luther Boelter, has been charged, for now, with second-degree murder. He allegedly killed two people, Melissa and Mark Hortman, in cold blood, and shot and wounded two others. According to Minnesota police, he showed up at the homes of at least two ...