“Scientists say they’ve finally found proof of the afterlife,” announced the top story in Mail Online this week, alongside the U.S. election. Heartwarming, reassuring, ...

I write this on Election Day. People are freaking out. "A Second Trump Administration Would Be a Carnival of Corruption and Greed," is a New York Times headline. "President ...

It seems that as more and more time goes by, my appreciation for the ingeniousness of our Founding Fathers elevates. I write this before knowing the outcome of the election. I ...

Having a column that runs Monday/Tuesday means I’m forever doomed to post the evening before/day of elections. And today? You’re on edge. Everyone is. So I’ll take my cue ...

My all-time favorite example of electoral interference came in 1997, when Zimbabwe’s former president the Reverend Canaan Banana was scurrilously accused of several acts of ...

The world must be getting so much worse! Activists protest everywhere. Listening to them, I'd think hate, homophobia, racism and environmental threats are at record highs. But ...

I hold no brief for the tobacco companies and have no shares in them. I detest the habit, perhaps because my father smoked an evil pipe whose product had been well described by ...

I almost never bother to try to forecast the outcome of an election. After all, we shall all know soon enough. High-tech California, for instance, should be done counting its ...

Remember Charles Rothenberg? Hopefully not, as it’s a most unpleasant memory. In the early 1980s, Rothenberg was locked in a bitter custody dispute with his wife, Marie, over ...

At last! The benefits of diversity have finally arrived in my hometown! Recently, the front-page regional news story was all about a big black man named Mohammad Alhadi who had ...

No one, I imagine, would include a speech by Donald Trump in an anthology of succinctness or political eloquence. Whether he is too lazy to organize his thoughts, or simply ...

What does it take for a parent to get arrested? Surprisingly little. Scott and Heather Wallace of Hewitt, Texas, encourage their three boys to play outside on their own to build ...

We know the Cambridge Union just held a shameful, ugly debate on making all vaccinations mandatory, because someone had the foresight to film it and put it on YouTube. When you ...

I'm not sure the Central Park Five really want a civil trial on what happened the night of April 19, 1989, but by suing Donald Trump for defamation, that's what they're going to ...

Has 85-year-old Francis Ford Coppola pulled off the artistic comeback of the century by liquidating half of his heirs’ expected inheritance in his wine business to film ...

Sometimes it really is cruel to be kind, as the old adage almost goes. If so, then our current Western #BeKind culture must be amongst the very cruelest societies ever to have ...