In the contention over the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, the Europeans are in their accustomed role -- carping from the sidelines.  Not only can the once-great European powers no longer …

We never get a break from bad news. In recent days we have heard of people being killed at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. There have been more school shootings from Brown University to Kentucky …

Ronald Reagan famously said that the most frightening words in the English language are: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." U.S. manufacturers must know exactly what the Gipper …

How many more Christmases will you have? Will you have fifty more? Will you have a dozen more? Maybe you will have just one more, maybe. There are no guarantees of a certain number of more …

It's not what you know, it's who you know -- even if you may have committed terrible crimes. That's the Jeffrey Epstein version of the famous line about success. The massive tranche of Epstein emails …

The debate over affordability is now truly and fully joined. After the off-year elections, Democrats are coalescing around a cost-of-living message that makes more sense than their anti-Trump …

Drive through any small town in Tennessee and you’ll see them — the garish neon signs, the bright yellow banners, the plastic bags with sticky notes and cheap pens tossed into driveways. …

Every Veterans Day, we see flags flying, hear the marching bands, and pause to honor the men and women who wore our nation’s uniform. The lessons they carried home — courage, service, …

Zohran Mamdani has a hard time keeping it together when he thinks about Sept. 11 and its aftermath.  Not -- judging by his performance the other day -- when he contemplates the impact of …

As the government shutdown drags on, one of the biggest questions looming over millions of Americans is whether funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — better known as SNAP …

In one of his classic New Jersey ballads, Bruce Springsteen sings of the sun "rising over them refinery towers." If New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy had gotten his way, the Boss would need to update …

Last month I wrote about one of my favorite topics, which is metaphors, idioms, similes, and other colorful sayings. I had a whole bunch of new ones that I had jotted down. Since I didn’t make …

If you’re in rural Tennessee, chances are you drive by multiple ill-placed—and often illegally placed—advertisements along the public right-of-way or other public property. Littered …

Recently, I made the difficult decision to part ways with an employee at one of our newspapers. This individual held political and religious views very different from my own—views I respected …

Do you remember playing with those Magic 8 Balls® as a kid? You’d ask questions like, “Will I get an A in school?” or “Will I get that video game for Christmas?” …

Transparency is a cornerstone of a free society. As Thomas Jefferson, our third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote, a government’s “just powers” are …

For a time, Tennessee’s SEC baseball series with Vanderbilt this past weekend looked promising. The Vols, needing a jolt of adrenaline to stay in the mix for a home regional berth, took …

Every year we celebrate Mothers in May. We could (and should) honor them all year, but there is just something about the blooming flowers and warmer weather that May brings that makes us think of our …

If you’ve been to a McDonald’s drive-thru in the past several months, chances are you were greeted with a friendly question. “Will you be using your mobile app today?” I …

If you’ve been to a McDonald’s drive-thru in the past several months, chances are you were greeted with a friendly question. “Will you be using your mobile app today?” I …