The guest columnist takes readers on a fascinating - and disconcerting - walk through recent history.

It’s easy to claim victory when ICE enforcement targets other states.

If you’ve got your health care, you have everything. It’s shameful that not everyone has it.

Tick…tick…tick…another one eats Trump’s dust. With a surprise ending.

Think big, way bigger.

The new American Pope and our national politics.

President Trump’s blitzkrieg hasn’t let up, but Democrats must find their voice.

Think of it as a ray of hope.

What does it mean that innovations in artificial intelligence are tumbling over themselves, instantly available to all, often for free?

The former president won’t be easy to defeat, even with Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey on Kamala Harris’ side. A few days after Hurricane Helene’s selective rampage, my wife and I ventured out. The hurricane punished many and spared others, sometimes…

There he was, Jeff Bridges, not just a dude, not just an older dude, but THE DUDE, from “The Big Lebowski.” With an easy grin, he greeted us on the first giga-Zoom of 200,000 “white dudes” supporting Kamala Harris. “A woman president, man!” the…

It’s just a hunch, but I’m of his generation and I think I might know why decent, old Joe agreed to this plan. To save the country. Eighteen months ago, taking stock of my own aging apparatus, I predicted in these pages that old age would overwhelm…

Published June 20|Updated Yesterday As we wend our way through our long Florida summer steam bath, and the even more interminable presidential campaign, I try to avoid the worst of both. As did Englishmen of yore, I stay out of the noonday sun. As to…

Readers may recall my jeremiad a couple of months ago about TikTok. I described my own too-frequent habit of scrolling endless short videos on the Chinese-owned platform. I paired that with the ongoing tensions between parents and kids over…

This month one year ago, I wrote in these pages that old age would dominate all other issues in the 2024 political campaign. It was back when our governor, Ron DeSantis, was still a contender, and his beloved “woke” issues were sparking in the…

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Staying out of the heat this summer, I was at home, remote-flipping. I thought I’d watch a movie, but I ended up on a TV news channel. I paused at a report on a rally of MAGA supporters. My grandfatherly eye lighted on a scene — several kids who…

An important political lesson springs from a battle between a 7-year-old and her 9-year-old sister. Our granddaughters were at each other’s little throats. The 7-year-old, a budding artist whose work was on regular exhibit on the fridge, was in our…