ARIES (March 21-April 19). Hands off. You’ve done all you can. Everyone will take away something different from today’s scene. There’s nothing you must do to improve the experience. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The stars indicate a weak force becoming powerful or a meek person coming into ...

Seventeenth-century poet and intellect John Milton predicted, “When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation.” Gore Vidal, his 20th-century intellectual successor, elaborated saying: “As societies grow decadent, ...

Dear Annie: I just found out tonight that my brother’s second-oldest adult son passed away today. My brother’s oldest son passed three years ago. My brother has been estranged from the family for a long time, since he was in Vietnam. I have maintained a relationship with him by calling him ...

The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives conservatives and Republicans what they claim to have wanted since judicial activism became the norm in the 1960s. From outlawing prayer and Bible reading in public schools, to the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized ...

The political shadowboxing before presidential debates is cleverly choreographed. Take the 2000 contest between then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush and then-Vice President Al Gore. Before that year’s first general election debate, the Bush team did a superb job of lowering expectations for ...

Dear Annie: My mother-in-law is a widow and lives next door to my husband and me. I never felt like we had privacy, as she’d walk over whenever she felt like it and visit without calling first. Even when we were newly married, she’d just walk over to our house without reaching out ...