I was sitting in my home office not far from the Pentagon when it happened. The TV behind me had the sound lowered but I suddenly became aware of a major development. I reached for the remote and cranked up the audio. A plane had struck one of the twin towers in New York. TV anchors initially ...
A decade later, Colin Kaepernick is as tiresome as ever. To mark the 10-year anniversary of his kneeling during the National Anthem, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback is out with a new memoir, "The Perilous Fight." (Get it?) In an interview with NBC News in advance of the book's ...
When I write one of these, it’s like sewing a rug. I take a bunch of ideas and stitch them together till I have a column that I can shake outside and put on the floor. Today, I have a lot of loose ends. These are remnants from our trip to Europe in June. Instead of rug, it might come out ...
I was about six years old when I discovered that I have an extraordinary talent for making things disappear. I owned a Barlow jackknife that had both a long blade and a short blade. This meant that I was prepared for anything from fending off a ferocious tiger to cleaning my fingernails. ...
Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw was nervous walking into her final green card interview, but her husband Terrance assured her that it was all going to be fine. They had done everything the U.S. government had asked of them: completed the required medical and financial assessments, gathered their ...
As part of Donald Trump's trade war with Canada that the administration claims isn't a trade war, the president has signed an executive order, renaming Lake Ontario, "Lake America." This follows his renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." These childish antics help no one, but ...
