Sometimes I am actively looking for something to write about; other times I stumble upon something that tweaks my interest. In either case, I am off and running. The column came from some of my random research. I stumbled on facts about the months of the year. I found many things I did not ...

Good for Mike Bloomberg. During his first debate, he slammed Bernie Sanders by saying: “We’re not going to throw out capitalism. We tried that. Other countries tried that. It was called communism, and it just didn’t work!” Exactly right. It’s safe to say Bloomberg is not a ...

Editor’s note: Adriana Cohen is off this week. The following column is by Salena Zito. WESTBY, Wisconsin — Spend any time with people who supported presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and you quickly find out that the reasons they voted for Trump had very little to do with ...

Journalists can have up-and-down relationships with politicians. We need each other. At times, our jobs conflict, and we tend to dislike each other. At other times, our goals synchronize and we like each other — for a while. I like to think that I have a friendly relationship with ...

My dog needs to be touching me at all times. He follows me around the house. He sleeps in bed with me. He barks if something is unusual. He has helped me through hard times and enjoyed adventures in the good times. He rides in the front seat of my car when we go places. He’s been with me ...

Irving Kristol, a New York intellectual and youthful communist who became a guru of the American right, once defined a neoconservative as “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” Thanks to Donald Trump, we have a new definition of a criminal justice reformer: a rich person who is ...