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What if Israel had lost the Six-Day War?
At least 80 victims were murdered in Kabul on Wednesday morning when a suspected car bomb blew up in a diplomatic area of the Afghan capital. As many as 400 people were wounded, most of them civilians.
As you may have heard, there is a movement abroad in the land to make America great again. To hear The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik tell it, it was never great in the first place.
More than half a century after Martin Luther King Jr. exhorted Americans to judge each other by the content of their character, obsessive racialists continue to insist that people must be judged by the color of their skin.
Scandals cascade over the Trump administration. With each news cycle comes another revelation of apparent malfeasance or ineptitude.
The anonymous comment sections of many publications are notorious for their incivility and malignant smears. But in the debate over replacing Obamacare with a Republican alternative, the American Health Care Act, the online trolls and fever-swamp fanatics have been hard to distinguish from mainstream politicians, journalists, and commentators.
For anyone concerned with human rights, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's speech to State Department employees last week was disheartening.
In California and five other states, it is illegal for psychologists and mental-health counselors to engage in "conversion therapy" meant to change the sexual orientation of minors.
With the accusation that Canada is "dumping lumber" on the United States, the Trump administration last week announced plans to impose tariffs of up to 24 percent on imports of Canadian softwood. U.S. lumber companies complain that Canada unfairly subsidizes its lumber industry by letting Canadian loggers cut trees cheaply on government land, and then sell the wood at below-market prices in the United States.
Just ahead of Donald Trump's 100-day milestone, Barack Obama stepped back into the spotlight Monday, giving his first public speech since leaving the White House.
Words of forgiveness can be deeply powerful. They can also be deeply misguided.
Each year in the United States, an estimated 6.1 billion hours are spent complying with the federal tax code. I'm pretty sure at least half of those hours are spent by me.
As Senate Democrats filibuster the nomination the Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans are preparing to invoke the "nuclear option" and allow the nominee to be confirmed by simple majority vote.
Of the three R's, says Will Fitzhugh, the founder and publisher of The Concord Review, the middle R has long been the most neglected. It was true in his own case — when he arrived at Harvard as a freshman 61 years ago, he had never had to write a single term paper — and it remains true now. On the whole, American students graduate from high school incapable of writing a coherent, well-researched essay. Most of those who continue to college don't become competent writers there, either.
"The biggest broken promise in political history" is how Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner characterized last week's Republican health care fiasco.
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose," says the wealthy Antonio to his young friend Bassanio in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."
Actually, They Legislate All the Time
To hear the liberal denunciations of the proposed American Health Care Act — House Speaker Paul Ryan's plan to replace Obamacare — you would think the GOP had set out to wreck a brilliant and much-loved social reform that Americans couldn't imagine living without.
Why it's best to view the alarmists' frantic predictions with healthy skepticism.
"Do you believe," CNBC's Joe Kernen asked Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency's new director, in an interview last Thursday, "that it's been proven that CO2 is the primary control knob for climate?"
