WASHINGTON — In the Trump era, no moment of tranquility can be taken for granted.
Two tragedies happened in suburban Chicago the other day. A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed for allegedly trying to steal a car from a driveway and the five teenagers who were with him were charged with a murder they did not commit.
There are two quite different paths toward change in the 2020 elections. One would involve getting rid of President Donald Trump but leaving Washington gridlocked. The other would see a Democratic president elected with a Democratic Congress. For the first time in a decade, progressives, wit…
During a December 2015 debate among Republican presidential candidates in Las Vegas, former Florida governor Jeb Bush said to Donald Trump: “You can’t insult your way to the presidency.”
It happened like clockwork. Every few weeks, especially in the winter months, when snowbirds traveled to my then-home in Tucson, Ariz., from parts north that included Michigan and Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, a letter to the editor would turn up at the paper where I worked. With slight…
WASHINGTON — When you Google Beto O’Rourke, one of the things that come up is “expletives of the day.” The Texas Democrat has become famous for unleashing expletives. When a reporter asked him whether there was anything President Donald Trump could do in the wake of the El Paso shooting, O’R…
President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised, “America will never be a socialist country.” Since Franklin Roosevelt began expanding government in the 1930s, the United States has increasingly adopted big-state policies associated with socialism.
Dear Dave: Why do I need a will if I’m still young and haven’t acquired a lot of wealth? — Laura
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — It is difficult to discourage and impossible to manage Justin Amash because he, unusual among politicians, does not want much and wants nothing inordinately. He would like to win a sixth term as congressman from this culturally distinctive slice of the Midwest. He do…
WASHINGTON — It's beginning to feel like 1980s news tape showing America's despotic enemies running amok.
CHICAGO — Given its surplus of violence and scarcity of resources, Chicago surely has bigger things to worry about than the menace, as the city sees it, of Laura Pekarik’s cupcakes. Herewith redundant evidence of regulatory government’s unsleeping solicitousness for the strong.
WASHINGTON — A concern for human rights and democracy has often been seen as an add-on to our country’s foreign policy, an attractive veneer over the usual realpolitik. But President Donald Trump is demonstrating that a supposedly “America First” policy focused entirely on trade and divorced…
Like every other right-thinking person, I begin every vacation with an earnest resolution to unplug from the internet: no Twitter, no Facebook, only occasional peeks at email. We spend too much of our lives overwhelmed by information; summer getaways give us a chance to take a breath.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will do just about anything to get his daily, hypodermic fix of attention, including the spread of racist tropes and conspiracy theories. And no, I am not starting a rumor that Trump is secretly a drug addict. It is a metaphor. But if my editors and their …
WASHINGTON — Regimes, however intellectually disreputable, rarely are unable to attract intellectuals eager to rationalize the regimes’ behavior. America’s current administration has “national conservatives.” They advocate unprecedented expansion of government in order to purge America of ex…
After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, investigators discovered that the lone man assigned to guard the president, John Parker, had abandoned his post to watch the play from an adjacent box at Ford’s Theater. Worse, at intermission, Parker adjourned to a nearby saloon to have drinks wit…
Severe weather can strike at any time, especially in Alabama, and it doesn’t have to be during severe weather season.
Safety efforts encouraging
Our love for steaks and burgers is contributing to rapidly exploding climate change and ironically setting up the planet to one day not have e…
In Friday's Decatur Daily “Your View,” a writer commented about money spent on the “Chamber of Commerce annual joyride to Washington."
There was a story in the paper Sunday titled "Ex-Morgan sheriff settles lawsuit." I was interviewed by the article's reporter on Friday by cel…
I would like to thank The Decatur Daily and the reporter who did a wonderful job of reporting about the trash and filth on Wimberly Drive.
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