After Israel took out at least two of Iran’s top scientists behind the development of nuclear weapons (and promised to kill more), my high school fight song came to mind. At football games after a touchdown we sang, “Hit ’em hard and hit ’em again. Show ’em now that we’re gonna ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining "June" and "nineteenth" — has only ...

While the nation braced to see what would happen next in Los Angeles, on Thursday a surprising message appeared on President Trump’s Truth Social account. A day after videos emerged of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents chasing after terrified farmworkers trying to hide in ...

The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes are just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of political violence in the United States. The list, in the past two months alone: the ...

The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and the rule of law. None of ...

“The Red and White and starry Blue is freedom’s shield and hope.” — John Philip Sousa What is it that triggers the formation of momentous ideas — a captured thought, an inspirational moment or something else? What we do know is this specific idea was born in 1885 to a teacher, Bob ...