Success often sows the seeds of future failure. That’s the danger America faces now. America is a great and powerful country. But this shouldn’t blind us to an obvious historical reality. Great empires rise — and fall. Just look at the history of the Roman Empire. Or the Babylonian ...
I swam in the beautiful bay water three times that day. Salt on skin does wonders. Six of us had a sundown dinner on the roof, with a homemade almond cake a la creme and fruit for dessert, a ferry and lighthouse in the distance. Everyone around the table at the house party was a true-blue ...
Efforts by those promoting Ohio as “the heart of it all” have caught the attention of researchers studying road-trip destinations across the country. In fact, according to WalletHub’s “Best and Worst States for Summer Road Trips (2026),” Ohio is ranked 10th. The Buckeye State is ...
It’s a tradition like no other. Several entities — Merriam-Webster and Oxford University Press among them — pick a term and proclaim it the Word of the Year. We’ve had slop, rage bait, six-seven, brain rot, rizz, authentic, goblin mode and gaslighting blow up in recent years. Based ...
Iran, a second-rate power in a state of economic collapse, just fought the U.S. to a standstill in a major military conflict. The disappointing outcome has echoes of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, in that a major world power hasn’t been able to impose its will on a militarily inferior foe. ...
We can thank China that gasoline prices aren’t higher than they are. By last month, China had cut imports of oil by 3 million barrels per day, the daily consumption of Italy and France combined. China’s economy, meanwhile, hums along. Americans agonize over how the price of oil ...