HARTFORD, Conn. (Tribune News Service) — Here’s how I define unnerving times: When professionals who write, draw or talk about current events for a living worry that if they dare create anything satiric, mocking or funny, they’ll be laid off, shut down, let go or put through the wringer. Read More ⇒

WASHINGTON — With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40 percent of his 10 Senate years the government has been run on “continuing resolutions.” Read More ⇒

PHILADELPHIA (Tribune News Service) — The Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays, even though I despise the summer. Read More ⇒

FORT WORTH, Texas (Tribune News Service) — It seems an inevitability that every year around the Fourth of July, certain media will publish a series of articles reminding people how unremarkable it is to live in America. Read More ⇒

Recently in an opinion column for the Watertown Daily Times (June 30), Editorial Page Editor Jerry Moore wrote on the issue of Plan 2014 and how he believes elected officials are deflecting the blame of flooding for political gain. Read More ⇒

On a recent Tuesday afternoon, I was handed a gift bag. Read More ⇒

“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, Read More ⇒

PHILADELPHIA (Tribune News Service) When faced with two women who each claimed to be the mother of the same child, King Solomon announced that he would slice the child in two and give half to each claimant. Read More ⇒

HILLSBORO, Ohio — Eager to watch President Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff rally [two weeks ago], I first tuned in to Fox News. Read More ⇒

WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — For a year we have been telling ourselves we are not the kind of country that separates children from parents and relatives and locks them up without proper adult supervision, adequate food or even soap and toothbrushes. Read More ⇒

WASHINGTON — Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling temporarily blocking the insertion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census is not yet cause for celebration for those who value the nation’s increasing diversity. Read More ⇒

Did you realize July 1 was a national holiday in the United States? Read More ⇒

WASHINGTON — The doctrine that court precedents should have momentum for respect — the predictability of settled law gives citizens due notice of what is required or proscribed — is called stare decisis. Read More ⇒

Thousands of children in military families around the country have completed the school year only to pack up their belongings and head with their parents to a new region and ready for the new school year that begins in only a few weeks. Many of those kids will be putting down stakes, at leas… Read More ⇒

PHILADELPHIA (Tribune News Service) — As former Vice President Joe Biden has embarked on his latest campaign for the presidency, I’ve been reminded about why I left the Democratic Party three years ago after having been a member since 1980. Read More ⇒

HARTFORD, Conn. (Tribune News Service) — What’s your favorite object? Read More ⇒

WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, I visited San Quentin prison on the edge of San Rafael, Calif., where I grew up. Read More ⇒

CLAYTON — Believe it or not, you can help, and it doesn’t involve money. Read More ⇒

Joe Biden is old. He hugs people. He thinks China is and isn’t a challenge for America. Read More ⇒

WASHINGTON — Most presidential candidates understand that to win black voters, they need to address the prevalence of racism in America. Nearly nine in 10 — 89 percent — of black Americans say that racial discrimination against black Americans is a serious problem, according to a 2018 NBC Ne… Read More ⇒

WASHINGTON — That the Democrats’ two evenings of dueling oratory snippets this week are called “debates” validates Finley Peter Dunne’s prediction that “when we Americans are through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.” Read More ⇒

I binge-watched HBO’s “Chernobyl” this week. It made me think of Donald Trump. Read More ⇒

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who champions Medicare-for-all, will face nine fellow candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination next Thursday on the second night of the debates — most of whom don’t agree with his prescription. Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, former vice p… Read More ⇒

FORT WORTH, Texas (Tribune News Service) — There are a lot disappointing elements in the story of Georgia Clark, the Fort Worth Carter-Riverside High teacher whose recent social media tirade about unauthorized immigrants prompted FWISD’s board of trustees to recommend that she be terminated. Read More ⇒

“You Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause.” Read More ⇒

COLTON — Does Gov. Andrew Cuomo really want to stay put in the governor’s mansion for eight more years, as he has said, or is he planning a move to the White House? Read More ⇒

PHILADELPHIA (Tribune News Service — Recently, I found myself standing in front of my old house in Philadelphia. Read More ⇒

I am as straight as the crease in George Will’s slacks. It’s not something I’m particularly proud of. Read More ⇒

Staging an updated Woodstock music festival has proven to be more problematic today than it was 50 years ago. Read More ⇒

WASHINGTON — “It is a great advantage to a president,” said the 30th of them, “and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.” Read More ⇒

NEW YORK — People keep saying that the U.S. Federal Reserve needs to cut interest rates, in large part to ward off the ill effects of the Trump administration’s trade wars. Read More ⇒

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Read More ⇒

It’s dreadful that we still argue over the purpose of the Southern Confederacy. Read More ⇒

John Pavlovitz is a liberal, widely read Christian pastor who has composed an internet article saying good people don’t defend a bad man. And you know who he’s talking about, of course: none other than President Donald Trump, whose deplorable supporters have climbed from a basket into the cr… Read More ⇒

WASHINGTON — If congressional Democrats will temper their enthusiasm for impeachment with lucidity about the nation’s needs and their political self-interest, they will understand the self-defeating nature of a foredoomed attempt to remove a president for aesthetic reasons. Read More ⇒

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Read More ⇒