August is usually downtime in Washington. Congress is in recess, the heat and humidity contribute to the desire to escape town for cooler weather, the president is normally somewhere else and cable news is focused on shark attacks. Not this August. Cable news, especially, along with some ...

How nice to have the Sydney Sweeney "great genes" controversy. It is happily of no consequence, which is just what we need for escape from unhinged behavior spilling out of Washington. Donald Trump's sending nuclear subs toward Russia, a likely distraction from his tangle with Jeffrey ...

WASHINGTON — I have a pet peeve about news coverage of mass murder. When the story breaks, cable news anchors report, as they first did after last Monday's shooting in Midtown Manhattan, that the killer's motives were unknown. What do mass shooters' motives matter? When killers leave ...

When I was in high school, rarely was an insult worse than calling someone "fake." "Gosh, I love your shoes," a girl might say, sitting next to you in chemistry, simultaneously giving you a side-eye that communicated much more convincingly that she did not, actually, love your shoes at all. ...

Mark Levin has written a brand-new book on a huge subject: "On Power." How do you boil that subject down to 208 pages? In America, the founders and their current admirers have been all about limiting power, having the humility about human nature to understand that people lust for ...

Unless you're roasting marshmallows, it's hard to think of fire in the woods as a good thing. We all watched wildfire devastation play out earlier this year in Southern California, and many dealt with poor air quality as smoke drifted into the United States from fires burning in Canada. The ...