The economy is far too tight for many Americans — more about how to fix that in a minute — but first some good news: Household wealth is on the rise. And not by a small amount. New data from the ...

We need some good news now, and here’s some out of left field: An important new study suggests that there’s a highly effective way to overcome one of the most intractable problems in 21st-century ...

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Aristotle said that there is a sense in which poetry has higher truth value than history. What he meant was poetry addresses the nature of its subject while history addresses particular events, for ...

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I am hearing from readers that there may be a movement afoot for me to rename my column because being a fan of Senior Moments makes them feel old. It’s all in perspective, of course. One reader named ...

After a multiyear reading slump, I ended 2025 having read 63 books, the highest number I’ve read in recent years. With so many books read and that reading slump a thing of the past, one might think ...

The nation has long needed, but never more than now, what it now has. The new biography of a Supreme Court justice, “Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment,” by University of Virginia law professor G.

Recently, while reviewing our property tax statement, I noticed what we all know: a significant portion of our taxes fund education. This is exactly as it should be. We should wholeheartedly support ...

Re: “Capitol wrongly worries over education budget, not results” (Page A8, Jan. 18). On Sunday, Dan Walters opined about how Mississippi is beating California in the reading wars. As always, his ...