House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump has killed people by the way he has conducted himself during the coronavirus crisis, and, look, I am not going to say in reply that she has killed anybody.
Dear Dave: My husband and I just completed Baby Step 3, and we have six months of expenses saved for an emergency fund. How should we determine when something is actually an emergency? — Riley
You're still reeling from how botched the federal government's response to COVID-19 has been. You won't believe how messed up the census is.
I confess to a certain self-interest in today’s column. The media, especially newspapers, are in trouble. Conservatives like myself have been relentless in attacking their collective bias over the years, but as more of them fold or reduce staff, it is crucial the institution be saved.
In February — a lifetime ago — columnist David Brooks declared the nuclear family “a mistake” in a much debated piece for The Atlantic.
It is not cognitive dissonance — the impossibility of holding two or more contradictory beliefs simultaneously — to favor the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump while at the same time worrying about what the increasing national debt …
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has changed all of our lives. As I write this, it has been two weeks since schools were dismissed, two weeks into a new and restricted living. It was two weeks that seemed like two months. The only normalcy is the bickering of our two political parties, approaching an …
Americans of all persuasions are locked into a 24/7 duck-and-cover mentality that has become our new reality.
He was the 44th vice president of the United States in the George H.W. Bush administration, but for the last 20 years, Dan Quayle has stayed mostly away from the unfriendly glare of political life.
Dear Dave: In light of recent events in our country, do you have suggestions for things people should think about and plan for if they get laid off from their jobs? — Sam
On top of everything else, now we have to learn a new language: lingua corona.
“Social-distancing” is the phrase of the day, and what it pretty much means is staying away from people while America shuts down, the economy gets clobbered and death seeks out a million, maybe 2 million of us. The issue is coronavirus, the fear is contagion and a primary solution is surceas…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Remember that iconic BBC interview of professor Robert E. Kelly on Skype from his home office? He was trying to speak soberly about the political upheaval in South Korea when his toddler-aged daughter burst in, followed by his infant son in a rolling walker, followed by h…
If anything good can come from the coronavirus pandemic, it is the revelation of America’s overreliance on China, especially when it comes to drugs.
While Americans are wrestling with how to get tests and equipment to curb the coronavirus, it's easy to forget this is a global crisis.
Dear Dave: Should you still pay debts that are in collections, even if they have been dropped from your credit report? The one in question is from 2011, and I assume it isn’t showing on the credit report anymore because it’s nine years old. — Sam
One thing the coronavirus crisis has made abundantly clear is the tangle of bureaucratic red tape that is a nuisance during normal times can b…
The Boston Globe on President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic:
On Jan. 24, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., attended a private Senate briefing on the coronavirus, which featured Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government…
To: Bernie Sanders, U.S. presidential candidate
Street lines faded, vine obscuring stop sign
We're approaching a precipice of our Constitution.
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The COVID-19 crisis threatens to undo years of educational efforts to help disadvantaged students catch up to their more affluent classmates. The same old problems — lack of internet access or computers for doing homework, parents who have limited financial or educational resources to help t…
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