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When I was 17 I asked a heretical question in America: What is all this wealth for? I grew up in Michigan when Detroit was still the car king of…

There was a time when Americans feared and detested mobs. Indeed, it was part of our mythology. Now we’re ruled by a hard-core 40% who refuse to hear or see…

The city council members of the recently incinerated town of Paradise, all of whom lost their homes in the conflagration, voted to hoist American flags for Veteran’s Day along their…

Watch any five minutes of President Trump’s State of the Union Speech on YouTube, and you’ll agree that he channeled Mussolini for the entire address. From the fixed, jutting chin…

“It’s now time to start moving American dependents out of South Korea,” Senator Lindsay Graham says. The drums of war beat louder each week, but Americans are too willfully deaf…

Hindsight, the cliché goes, is 20/20. In truth, hindsight is only as clear as one’s perception of the present.

The elites of society are not inherently corrupt and incompetent. They could have told the American people the truth after their complicity with the Bush Administration’s evils in invading Iraq,…

On the same day I wrote my last column about an experience I had in Russia 27 years ago, a young Russian couple, born around that time, came up as…