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It has been more than six months since President Donald Trump -- without the authorization of Congress -- declared war on Iran. It is turning into one of those forever wars that candidate Trump so vigorously denounced. Now he has enmeshed us in such a war, costing billions, lives and our credibility in the world. And he still can't get the ...Read more

If you think the Langtang Lirung glacier disaster on the Tibet-Nepal border was bad, wait for Lake Sarez.

There is no reason to downplay the Aug. 26 catastrophe, when a large section of glacier and underlying rock at 17,000 feet of elevation failed and plunged almost 4,000 feet into the valley below. The impact registered as a magnitude 5.2 ...Read more

Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw was nervous walking into her final green card interview, but her husband Terrance assured her that it was all going to be fine. They had done everything the U.S. government had asked of them: completed the required medical and financial assessments, gathered their paperwork and even received approval of their marriage...Read more

When I was in high school, a girl I was going out with said she was first attracted to me by the way my hair curled over my shirt collar in the back. She sat behind me in math class.

I spent the next five years of my life turning my back on girls so they could get a good look at the back of my neck.

It didn't work. They just thought I was ...Read more

Anna Wintour spent nearly four decades reigning over Vogue magazine. She was chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and its glitzy gala. Wintour is an inspiration for the imperious fashion editor in "The Devil Wears Prada." With her trademark bob hair, sunglasses and snotty English accent, Wintour has been the style ...Read more

Tuesday was primary day in Massachusetts, where winning the Democratic primary makes you the prohibitive front-runner in November. Which is a long way of saying that Massachusetts will be returning three aging Baby Boomers to Congress. I couldn't be more pleased.

The lucky three are Senator Ed Markey, 80 and Representatives Richard Neal, 77 ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Sure, build a ballroom dwarfing the clean and classic design of the White House.

Go ahead, murder the history of Lafayette Square with prison bars keeping tourists away from our traditional place of dissent. Close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since it will never be the same again, with your name spoiling ...Read more

Let's all gather 'round the campfire, Buckaroos and let Ol' Cactus Jim here tell you about some of today's hardy, hard-working cowboys. Yes, those manly men who live free-spirited, yippy-ti-yi-yo, cowboy lives out in the rustic ranch country of the Rocky Mountain West.

Oh, wait -- that was a century ago. The "cowboys" who are now humming "...Read more

Historians may settle on President Donald Trump's demolition of the United States Agency for International Development as the perfect exemplar of America's precipitous plunge: the nullification of the best and most idealistic of what we have to offer by those whose values are the worst and most cynical we've ever experienced. Founded by John ...Read more

It was a day of deep thinking and heroic typing, my brain so fried I could hardly call out for pizza. Then the news and social media feeds exploded with reports that Harry and Meghan plan to leave California and move back to England. What was that to me? I don't care that the royals moved away or believe in royal anything except perhaps Royal ...Read more

More than 50 years ago, the framers of the Montana Constitution made a commitment that Indigenous cultural identity would be taught in every classroom across the state. Montana law has since promised that every student would learn about the history, cultures and contributions of tribal nations for more than two decades. But in classrooms ...Read more

On Tuesday, authorities in Pennsylvania reported two deaths from measles. Both of the patients were unvaccinated. Measles is reportedly ravaging Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, where 70 people have been hospitalized so far and hundreds infected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has so far this year reported 2,777 cases ...Read more

What if you were scrolling through job listings, and you found one that said "Assassin/Assassination Assistants"?

You'd think it was a sick joke.

"Organization with rich and powerful history, but deeply in debt and facing decline with few prospects of improvement, seeks paid assassin willing to unquestioningly injure, maim and/or kill anyone...Read more

As I write this, Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw has not seen her husband or held her 19-month-old baby in over two weeks.

On Aug. 12, Armelle and her husband, Terrance Bradshaw, voluntarily appeared for what was supposed to be a final interview in the process of obtaining her marriage-based green card. Instead, immigration agents separated the ...Read more

AI ain't ever gonna use an outhouse, but Dolly Parton used one. That was back in the days when living "off the grid" wasn't a moral decision, but just meant that the grid didn't give a damn about where you were, and you couldn't afford it if it found you.

That was when country singers didn't come from the suburbs of Cleveland, and they didn't...Read more

Classic Labor Day imagery shows men wearing hard hats and tough women in uniforms. These are Americans who did not build their muscles at a wellness club.

By contrast, actual photos of the Democratic Socialists of America show seas of white faces belonging to college graduates. The only work most of them have done with their hands is typing. ...Read more

On Aug. 25, the Department of Justice filed its papers defending its decision to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey for posting a picture of seashells arranged to spell out "8647."

That's right. A picture of seashells.

"There is no serious dispute that an objective viewer of Comey's post could read it to mean 'Kill President Trump,'" ...Read more