America and Americans

On one of the final days of the trial, dozens of women streamed into the back of a Plymouth, Massachusetts, courtroom, filling two long rows of wooden benches. They stood and watched the judge and jury take their seats. Then they strained for a view as a nurse wheeled in the defendant, Lindsay Clancy, who […]

When I was studying to become a nurse in the late 1960s, I learned that the most important value in patient care, for both nurses and doctors, was safety. Not curing, which is hoped for but often impossible, and not even empathy, although a high priority. That is because the patient who falls out of

Another summer, another high-profile trial for everyone to lose their mind over. There was Boston’s Karen Read in 2024, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s battle over who abused who worse a few years before that, and now, there’s the case of Lindsay Clancy. Clancy, whose legal team says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, strangled

How public-sector unions harvest taxpayer cash and rule the state California will not stop taxing its citizens. The state slaps a 63-cent fee on every gallon of gas. Sales taxes exceed 10 percent in some cities. The state’s highest earners pay a double-digit marginal rate to Sacramento on top of what they owe the feds.

It sounds like the stuff of a summer thriller. Using cyber tools, one of our adversaries- maybe Iran, maybe North Korea, or possibly a criminal enterprise- takes over the operations of a drinking water utility. The amount of purifying chemicals applied by automation is significantly increased or completely stopped. Before the change is caught, a

When Fernando and Patricia Escobedo moved to the Willows, an affluent neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, 25 years ago, kids were everywhere. About half of the homes on their cul-de-sac had children. Growing up, the couple’s twin daughters used to ride their scooters outside with other neighborhood kids. At an annual block party, they jumped

Decades ago, I remember reading an article in Newsday, a newspaper based on Long Island and, at that time, the eighth-largest daily in the country. It was a first-person admission of the writer’s irresistible attraction to morbidly obese women. After several family members and friends encouraged him to figure out his obsession by going into

During Operation Epic Fury, Iran used Chinese space assets and satellite imagery to track and target American military bases and operations in the Middle East. The Financial Times reported that Iran had secretly purchased a satellite from Earth Eye and ground-based signal-processing services from Emposat, both Chinese companies. Together, these purchases gave Iran an advantage

We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever