An amateur tries to sum up history using trends in five metrics for human well-being: Basically, if I help myself to the common (but cert...

One should be careful when challenging a man on the ground where he made his life's work.

Rick Perry tells a story about his good works.

There's a push to liberalize the Islamic laws on marriage and inheritance in Tunisia. The announcement has drawn criticism from the reg...

I'm going to follow AVI in linking to this piece on the sudden, unexpected rise of vocation-seeking among America's youth . It pro...

The article is by a black woman and for black men, but I think there may be a wider lesson or two to be learned. Mind you, there's ple...

"No country can survive being ruled by people who hate it."

Looking back at the old Patriotism and Extremism post cited in the piece below, I realize that it barely said something I thought I had mor...

Responding to an assertion that the Women's Soccer team had "Nothing given, everything earned," a writer notes that most every...

Male ones, at least, if meeting with unaccompanied female reporters . Actually, a chaperone for politicians is a plausible idea. Instead ...

Col. Kurt hits some material that will be very familiar to the Hall.

"Putting up a sign saying his farm is a coyote or feral hog free zone should do the trick, huh?" Those are two species that are...

France's government rivals Britain's in its worthiness for a revolution. Quadriplegic man reportedly ‘cried’ when told France has o...

So much medical news seems to chronicle the many ways the health industry can make us miserable, but here  is a medical advance I'd clas...

The Chevron Doctrine is up for review at the Supreme Court this fall. Powerline has a good take on the dispute. I recall the first line o...

Bill Barr is merciless in his choice of words. Speaking of choice of words, Sec. Pompeo has decided to give " unalienable " a s...

Arguably the worst candidate, Swalwell, bowed out today. So that's good. He will not be missed. However, there's at least as goo...

Venezuela has it down . Venezuelan special forces have carried out thousands of extrajudicial killings in the past 18 months and then manipu...

I have not heard a living person voice the word "soccer" in the last year, so I think this is another one of those issues that...

This is a Harvard-Harris poll. It's not finding what they'd like to find, so there's some reason to think it might be accurate...