In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows. Mediocre music is veneered over with gaudy, flashily lit, but ultimately empty and meaningless sets. The usual array of supporting dancers twerk and simulate intercourse, in sync with the main ...

If you’re beginning to feel as though the stakes in this year’s elections are unusually high, you are not alone. Even a cursory glance at newspaper opinion pages or social media feeds will tell you there are strong feelings on many important issues — and plenty of people believe they must ...

Good news came this week out of the U.S. Commerce Department, which says Japan is planning to fund three projects totaling approximately $36 billion in the coming years — one each in Ohio, Texas and Georgia. According to Reuters, this is the first wave of investments in the planned $550 ...

In early 1862, Union generals, soldiers and even the commander in chief of the Civil War were literally at a loss. Morale ran low. Taking the oath of office in March 1861, President Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was a newcomer to the nation’s capital. Compared to the flash-and-dash style of ...

Within the last six months, two friends, both pioneers and giants in the world of ideas in Washington, D.C., passed from this world. One, Ed Feulner, was the co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, which became the nation’s defining policy institute for conservative ideas. Now, last ...

If you’re a driver of a certain age, there is a good chance you’ve been “blinded by the light” at night, especially in recent years. The phenomenon has nothing to do with Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, which recorded the 1976 hit song of the same name. But over the last 20 years or so, ...