Recent Columns

The lockdowns instituted during the COVID pandemic were only supposed to last a few days. Two weeks turned into three, then months. Schools were closed, disrupting the education of millions of children...

History on the rerun. Magnolia State maintains its horrendously racist image...

It seems silly to write a column about the recent college protests. And yet, here we are...

My mother would have been considered eccentric had she been financially wealthy. But she is wealthy in the ways that really matter, and her greatest wealth is teaching the art of laughter...

School protests have dominated the headlines this week, as demonstrators have clashed with police at universities across the country attempting to voice their opposition to Israel's war in Gaza. There was also South Dakota Gov...

Making Sense By Michael Reagan What a good week it should have been for Republicans. The protestors demanded their schools condemn Israel’s invasion of Gaza, come out in support of Palestinians or divest themselves of any Israeli investments...

Way back when I was a boy, the U. Supreme Court was so revered as an institution that my fourth-grade teacher required us to learn the names of all nine members...

Last week, amid nationwide student protesting that threatened Jewish students and effectively shut down college campuses, twenty-seven Republican senators sent Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona a letter urgin..

South Dakota Gov...

Tyrades! Remember the scene where Allen’s character Alvy was stuck in line at the movies, subjected to the pompous blathering of a pseudo-intellectual?..

If you want to see a flying whale, go to the Natural History Museum in London. That’s because it’s dead. Right when you enter the museum, you see that enormous skeleton suspended from the ceiling: a whole blue whale, or what’s left of it...

To say that the following academic year has been riveting for higher education is an understatement. The result was a public relations disaster, shortly after which both Gay and Magill resigned...

John F.. I have always been fascinated with people who find within themselves the ability to defy expectations, anger their presumed allies and follow their own conscience...

The National Day of Prayer is on May 2nd this year. Like a lot of people, I don't pray until things go sour or I have some daunting challenge heading my way. I pray every April 15 — after cursing — when a large sum of taxes is due...

Editors were big fans of Chris Weyant this week, who had our top three most-reprinted cartoons. Weyant and a couple of cartoonists riffed on the new movie "Civil War," which has obviously political undertones for our divided nation...

Across the states, America's public employee pension plans are a ticking, insolvent time bomb...

Todd Blanche, who’s stuck with the hapless task of defending Donald Trump in criminal court, mouthed something in his opening statement that really pissed me off...

Making Sense by Michael Reagan Another week, another round of Republicans attacking each other. The Republican controlled House, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, passed the Ukraine funding bill after what seemed like years of delays by a vote of 311-112...

Editor’s note: A version of this column was published in 2017. Some girls are spending $2,000 or more on their custom prom dresses. I offer some advice to 2024 promgoers, based on my own prom experience in 1980...

Just because I think littering should be punishable by death doesn't mean I'm an unreasonable person. I smile when dogs get on public transport. I also have a freshly-oiled chainsaw in my garage...

Tyrades! Sentimentality saved the day in the funnies, just as it usually applies the brakes to abrupt municipal name changes in the real world. Neither did my father. We can’t change!..

For almost a decade, Donald Trump has sent the Republican Party and much of the mainstream media into a political whirlwind. But it's nothing new for the Grand Old Party...

Month after month, poll after poll, a majority of Americans express their dissatisfaction with the Biden administration over virtually every issue of concern – domestic and foreign...

Boy, is technology making us ruder. You see, long before the era of nasty Facebook posts and mean tweets — long before people had such an easy means to be rude to each other — there was a much tamer version of email rudeness...

John Paul II once stated that “there can be no rule of law … unless citizens and especially leaders are convinced that there is no freedom without truth...

Add California Governor Gavin Newsom’s name to the list of prominent elected officials who blatantly lied about their personal histories. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal falsely claimed to have been a Vietnam war combatant...

The cost of everything, from gas to groceries, remains stubbornly high. Home prices skyrocketed during the COVID pandemic, and inflation fears forced interest rates to rise...

How sad it is that few Americans have heard of Bob Graham, who died Tuesday at 87, because this guy was truly a profile in courage when we needed it most...

Making Sense By Michael Reagan “Death to Israel! �� It sounds like something you’d hear chanted by hundreds of brainwashed young people in the streets of Tehran...

For those too young to fully remember the OJ Simpson trial, it was a television spectacle with all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster...