Dear Annie: I am 77 years old and have known for most of my life that I’m not beautiful. I have a sharp chin and nose and have actually had a few warts removed. I realized when I was a child that I was not cute, a fact that was reinforced through my teen and young adult years. In my late ...

Russia has announced the development of an effective COVID-19 vaccine, which President Vladimir Putin has named Sputnik V. Bless his heart. Already in the final phase of human trials, the vaccine has raised concerns that the lab behind the vaccine, the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow, may have ...

Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx’s life and have never read his three-volume “Das Kapital.” Volume I was published in 1867, the only volume published before Marx’s death in 1883. Volumes II and III were later edited and published in his name by ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re being asked for your input because what you say has been known to change how people look at things, or that you’ve been right or helpful in the past. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’re comfortable with being different from the others, and you absolutely ...

Dear Annie: My father did everything he could to make my life miserable, and to deprive me of anything and everything. He treated my brother and sisters far differently, but even so, everyone in the family knew he was one sick man. My brother committed suicide when he was 21, and after ...

Political polls elicit predictable reactions from the candidates being polled. The campaign of the candidate trailing in the poll almost invariably invokes history: “I, for one, am grateful that Christopher Columbus didn’t take a poll before he bravely sailed off in search of a New World. ...