The flooding in Texas is cataclysmic. It was a hellscape as dozens, many of them girls from a summer camp, were swept to their deaths. Such tragedies spawn questions over whether the National Weather Service could have better warned the public. But this one is different in that the Trump ...

Here we go again. This week, the Senate finally passed its version of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and the House signed off. What was already an oversized mess has been supersized into a $4 trillion ode to unseriousness. This isn't tax reform. It's a bipartisan pinata stuffed with pork, ...

I refuse to try to build any more precious childhood memories for my kids. I'm just giving them fuel for the therapist's office (and I'm sure they already have enough of that). The camel's back-breaking straw came the other day, when my husband and I took our kids to an open-air concert at a ...

Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel's victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around me at work and law school then had been frustrated and puzzled at the lack of progress being made in Vietnam by the 448,000 U.S. troops ...

When the active-duty Air Force and Missouri Air National Guard bomber crews who attacked the Fordow uranium enrichment plant in Iran went to work last Friday, they kissed their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they'd be home. That's when their families became aware something was ...

Friday is the Fourth of July. What will you celebrate? Freedom from the English monarchy? To me, the Fourth is about freedom, period. When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they put forth a radical idea: Rights don't come from kings or presidents. They come from being ...