In backing down from his plan to include a question about U.S. citizenship on next year’s census form, President Donald Trump on Thursday gave credence to the claims of critics […]
Columns/Opinion
Trump has a pet currency; it’s not bitcoin
When Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, praised Bitcoin last year as “disruptive populism” and revealed he was working on his own cryptocurrency, it was evidence of something many people […]
More than mere exercise in nostalgia: Apollo 11 at 50
You had to be there 50 years ago, and I was. As a young reporter for a local TV station in Houston, I frequently visited NASA (“the space base,” we […]
Her skills not tied to ‘male traits’
BY RON BOONE The Baltimore Sun The inspiring victory of our Women’s World Cup soccer team took me back to my days coaching girls’ 13-16 softball in the late 1970s. […]
Something for everyone on milestone
I feared that the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing might get eclipsed by other celebrations, but apparently the sky is the limit for Apollo 11 remembrances. […]
Difference between open mind and empty one
A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann. It happened on July 27, 1942, at the fence of the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl, Poland. […]
Court rules (unpersuasively) Trump can’t block Twitter critics
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that President Trump violated the 1st Amendment by blocking some critics from access to his Twitter feed. The decision by the U.S. 2nd […]
Go ahead, you write a speech for president
In Washington, the National Mall has gone quiet. The Blue Angels have flown back to base, the Abrams tanks have been returned to Fort Stewart, Ga., and President Trump’s 4th […]
More for some, less for others
If you’re thinking of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, you need maximum compassion, and liberals don’t have it. Promises of more money for lots of people […]
Cannabis? Weed? Pot? Dope? What do you call that stuff?
I was talking with a colleague the other day about the advent of legal recreational marijuana in Illinois when out of my mouth came words that horrified me the minute […]




