Bruce Catton, the great chronicler of the Civil War, began one of his books with a quote from a chaplain in the Union Army who was struck b...

The man who reads nothing at all," Thomas Jefferson observed,  "is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers....

Years ago, I was a single dad. My children lived in Massachusetts but spent summers with me in Louisiana. During this time, my children and ...

 A tar baby , i n popular parlance,  is a difficult problem only made worse by attempts to solve it. The term comes from an Uncle Remus stor...

Last week, President Biden announced his decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine. Not so long ago,  his administration said that the u...

 The world's grain supplies are threatened by the war in Ukraine , one of the world's largest wheat producers. In fact, Ukraine and ...