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Faith and Family: Kathleen Carlton Johnson

We are about to start another year. Years are interesting markers in our lives. Like a ruler or a physical gauge, they measure. The solemn tramp of days, mornings, and sunsets. What are they measuring? They sometimes mark, with indelible ink, the story of our lives. Time is what we are given as human beings. Every one of us gets a certain amount of time to work with, ignore, or use wisely. When I was growing up, I recall that one thing I wanted was to grow faster, to be older, thinking that there were so many more benefits, to say nothing of the privileges that came with being older. ...

Robert B. Reich

I was sitting in the waiting room of a doctor's office last week when someone I hadn't seen for many years came in. When he saw me, he said "Bob! How are you? You look great!" I don't look great. Since I last saw him, my hair has turned from gray to white, and there's far less of it. My skin ...

Victor Davis Hanson

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400- year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece. But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, ...

Gary Franks

On December 7, 1941, Imperial Japan caused the United States to enter World War II. We must remember that Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor was due to an expansionist Japan, U.S. economic sanctions, and the U.S. disrupting the ability of the Japanese to acquire oil (among other natural ...

Michael Barone

It's been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America's 2024-25 winter was pretty cold too. It's gotten to the point ...

Erick Erickson

On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Earlier in the year, Longfellow had unsuccessfully pressured his son, Charles, not to join the Union Army. On Christmas Day, Longfellow learned his beloved son had ...