America’s annual rituals and observances include days we usually celebrate together (July Fourth, Memorial Day, Veterans Day), or as members of special groups (Passover, Easter and Christmas). The one annual ritual it can be safely said most Americans despise is April 15, when the half of ...

Mindfulness meditation: It’s all the rage. If you’ve been anywhere, talked to anyone or visited any social media site, you’ve likely heard about some of the positive effects of mindfulness meditation — how it can help with a wide variety of problems like depression, stress, insomnia, ...

Much has been written about the Trump team’s assault on civil society, universities, public health, the judiciary and our global alliances, and rightly so -- but there is one danger that deserves more attention because our ability to thwart this attempted revolution, this upending of our ...

President Donald Trump is using every tool he has to challenge woke practices in America — and he has a lot of them. Notably, none of the mechanisms that the president is using were put in place by conservatives for leverage against progressive institutions. No, Trump is simply availing ...

It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries’ trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised ...

It’s hard to remember that only 10 weeks ago, the American economy was quite good, our foreign relations were on the whole positive, we were on the way to dealing with climate change with subsidies for wind and solar energy, and we still lived in a democracy. Today, all that is ...