Those who really "call balls and strikes" know the goal of their craft is to be as invisible as possible, but those charged with settling our disputes have been anything but inconspicuous...
It's the thing with feathers, the rope we grip in stormy seas or on steep climbs, known around the world as the quality that for many best defines the nature of America and Americans and, fortunately, can still be found in quantity if you know...
Many are starting to think they can see the darkness at the end of the world; proving them wrong will require changing the focus from the end of the human race to the race we must collectively win...
We know justice is supposed to be blind, but that doesn't mean the justices of what originalist Alexander Hamilton promised us was "the least dangerous branch" should be willfully so...
What makes modern firearms so deadly is the velocity with which they fire each bullet. Speed kills. And not just human beings, but truth as well...
As we approach another anniversary of our nation's birth, it's become increasingly difficult to recall what we're celebrating and, indeed, to visualize our "indivisible" republic itself...
In the depths of the Great Recession, the Obama administration found itself looking for any signs of life in the economy, which they called "green shoots." Small businesses and startups are the crocuses of economic recovery, but today it's not only the economy that's looking...
Not Necessarily the News was a satirical HBO comedy series that ran from 1983 to 1990. As seems so often the case these days, what was thought to be a comedy has turned out to be, in title at least, a forecast instead...
When Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, his successor declared "our long national nightmare" over, but while Watergate fed a cancer of cynicism weakening our will to act, few were as directly affected by it as they've been by gun violence, the bad dream from which...
If there's anything we should have learned from the past three-plus decades, it's the importance of character in our leaders. Now that nothing appears to be disqualifying, it's up to we, the people, to rebuild our national values...
