Here’s a great New Year’s resolution: get a pet. As we wrap up a very inflationary 2023, pet shelters across the country are at maximum capacity and they don’t have room to house the pets people are turning in. ABC News reports that animals entering shelters began to climb in 2021. During the COVID pandemic, […]

At year’s end, our thoughts turn to war and peace — too much of the former, not enough of the latter. For 75 years, the United States has been the world’s most important nation, and despite constant predictions of decline, remains so. Its presidents are central to whatever progress toward peace can be made internationally. […]

Shortly after the Colorado Supreme Court declared in an explosive ruling that Donald Trump can’t appear on the state’s 2024 ballot because he’s an insurrectionist, one of the former president’s flacks fumed in predictable fashion about “George Soros” and “Crooked Joe Biden” and a judicial plot that’s “un-American.” But the Trump campaign’s statement failed to […]

Since two of my daughters are now in college and one is in high school, Christmas just “hits different”— as those crazy kids (and my not-so-secret, sort-of-but-not-really guilty pleasure, Taylor Swift) say these days. When I was up in the attic just after Thanksgiving, foraging for decorations and wondering how the ceiling hadn’t caved in […]

I’m very concerned about something we all see on the tube these days, and I obsess about it far more than I probably should, but I can’t help it. It’s all those gross animal legs and paws we see in commercials. You know, commercials starring an animal, where the poor beast appears to be doing […]

As the long days of summer have faded to the long nights of winter, our hopes for world peace this year have dimmed. But just as our time in the sun will grow again, so too may our hopes be rekindled that we may yet achieve sustainable peace on Earth. Those of us who are […]