Opinion

Can I have all my conservative, Donald Trump-loving friends please put their hands together and rap along with me: “I’m a sick (expletive)/ I like a quick (expletive)/ I like my (slang for male sex […]

I have mixed feelings about fellow Indian-American Nikki Haley’s announcement that she will resign as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. On the one hand, when she steps down at the end of this year, […]

About this time each year, we looked forward to receiving the Sears Wish Book. This wonderful catalog was about 3 inches thick, packed with thousands of items. It was the official kickoff to Christmas, and […]

In the late 1970s, in Plymouth, Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar — now a Democratic U.S. senator — was nearly kicked out of her elementary school for being the first girl to show up for class in […]

The highlight of Nikki Haley’s tenure as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations came in the third week of December 2017. The General Assembly was preparing to vote to condemn the United States for moving […]

Greg and Sarah live in a predominantly white neighborhood and send their children to a predominantly white private school. “I don’t want to believe we are hypocrites,” Greg says. “But if we say diversity is […]

Our Lifestyles columnist, Joe Weaver, lamented in print on Saturday that it has been a hard week for men. Although he was talking about a general lack of civility from all quarters, mostly on social […]

You know that party? The one where Christine Blasey Ford said she was assaulted and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said never happened? I’ve been to that party. Well, not that exact one, but parties […]

The laughter. That’s the most indelible memory Christine Blasey Ford said she had kept bottled inside of her since a horrific summer evening in 1982 — the wild cackling of then-teenagers Mark Judge and Supreme […]

‘The Godfather” ends with a famous scene in which each of the heads of the five most powerful New York mafia families is assassinated. One is exiting a gilded elevator. One is in a white […]

On June 6, 1944, the day of the great Allied Forces D-Day invasion of France, many historians agree, something unusual in the annals of war occurred on the beaches of Normandy. Despite a host of […]

The example sentences below demonstrate the proper English usage of interpersonal verbs, inflected for mood, tense and gender. Unit 1 He is drinking; he is drunk; he was drunk. He is just 17; he was […]