Norman Lear reached his 100th birthday this week, happily surrounded by his large family. That’s a remarkable achievement, but the real story here is not that Lear turned 100 but that he changed the world. He ranks among the most significant forces o ...
Hearings before legislative committees are usually as boring as sawdust. Then again, every once in a while one can lead to a moment of explosive revelation. That is exactly what happened yesterday when a witness before the U.S. Senate Committee on th ...
Today marks 246 years of the American struggle for independence. Though most people refer to the national holiday as “the Fourth of July,” it is formally named Independence Day. Whatever you call it, the day celebrates the greatest single moment of p ...
Uvalde, Texas, is about as Texas as you can get. Less than a hundred miles from the Mexican border, it is considered to be the southernmost reach of the Texas Hill Country. The town is named for a Spanish governor, Juan de Ugalde, and it has somethin ...