In the 1950s there was a quiz show called “To Tell the Truth.” It has been reborn several times but retained its original format. A celebrity panel would try to discover which one of three contestants was telling the truth, as all claimed to be the same person with identical backgrounds.

WASHINGTON — President John Adams attempted to counter lies and misinformation with the Sedition Act. But the First Amendment prevailed, and the act failed. Lesson learned. It is up to the private sector to step into the breach, relying upon enforcement of libel and slander laws to bring lia…

By any standard, Zaila Avant-garde is a remarkable 14-year-old girl with a positive and compelling outlook on life.

In April, when the national drive to immunize everyone against COVID-19 was gaining steam, Johnson & Johnson had to delay the availability of its vaccine because of production glitches.

Aren’t pride and shame just flip sides of the same coin? Which side are Republicans looking at as they take up the battle against critical race theory?

It’s seldom that conservatives get me frowning as much as regressive progressives do, but quite a few are arguing that people should not take coronavirus vaccines if they don’t want to, and the frown is forming permanent wrinkles.

Retirement plans warn of a “penalty for early withdrawal.” Might that also apply to the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan?

Is there anyone who can say what is always right and always wrong and present an unchanging standard by which all behavior can be judged?

A couple of weeks ago, I drove two hours north to the hillside town of Olyphant, Pennsylvania, just outside Scranton, to meet with a Donald Trump fan for a book project I’ve been working on. For 90 minutes, I listened to this 54-year-old laid-off factory worker and former Democrat who now sa…

For beginners, China is a thief that steals the equivalent of more than $4,000 from every four-person household in America every year, a total of $500 billion. What gets swiped is our intellectual property, the discoveries and inventions of our exceptional technologists. China also cheats th…

Most of us recall as children getting into a dispute with another kid and then blaming him for starting a fight. When Mom approached, you said, “he hit me first.” The other kid denies it and accuses you of hitting him first.

Books and articles — scientific as well as theological — have been written on human nature. Still, most people don’t understand it, or refuse to learn from it, or worse, play to its dark side.

In a short but significant opinion, the Supreme Court reinstated a lawsuit against police officers who held down a St. Louis man named Nicholas Gilbert in a prone position for 15 minutes, until he died. Gilbert was in handcuffs and leg irons in a cell at a police station when it all happened…

This year’s celebration of the Fourth of July provides a particularly apt occasion for considering the health of our republic.