The house where I was raised had an open shelf rule. This meant my brother and I were allowed to read anything, no matter how inappropriate or beyond our years. We never had to ask.…

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainians refer to Vladimir Putin as “Putler,” an amalgamation of Putin and Adolf Hitler. The label is more than a jab at Putin’s obscene lie that Russia invaded Ukraine to fight Nazis…

Jan. 6 rioter Stephen Ayres isn’t nearly as deserving of our sympathy as the U.S. Capitol police officers to whom he apologized this week. Still, I did feel for him as he testified about being…

On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and look through a pair of binoculars at the stars under a dark…

Recent mass shootings in Highland Park, Illinois; Buffalo, New York; and Uvalde, Texas, have produced the same futile debates that always follow such tragedies. Conservatives blame mental illness, and liberals blame gun access. But we…

When you read this column, I’ll be on my way to Ukraine. It will be a vastly different trip than the one I took in February just prior to the Russian invasion. Only five months…

I’m a pediatrician and I own a gun. That may surprise you. I own a handgun because I grew up with guns. My dad had a shotgun mounted in his truck and he hunted and…

It’s still not known what set off a fire at the Allen County Landfill Saturday afternoon.  But it didn’t have to be much, confirmed Mitch Garner, director of public works. Buried trash is “highly combustible,”…

The significance of last week’s congressional Jan. 6 committee hearings cannot be overstated. For the first time, evidence was presented that former President Donald Trump knew some of the protesters were armed before encouraging them…

WASHINGTON — The polarization of American politics, a trend that began long before Donald Trump ran for president, isn’t running out of steam. If anything, it’s accelerating. Last month it got a boost from a…