While searching today for the answer to a relatively simple question (“After three-fifths of the Senate votes for cloture, can the bill itself pass on a simple majority of those present during the vote?”) I was reminded of what should be the most obvious...

In 1620, an indentured servant named John Howland climbed the rigging aboard a ship called the Mayflower in the middle of a storm and was violently thrown overboard. As the 28-year-old plunged toward certain death, his hand touched a rope that had come loose from the...

If President Trump fires Special Counsel Robert Mueller — which I believe he has already decided to do once there’s no other way of avoiding pending criminal charges — then 2018 is shaping up to be a year of national crisis like no living American...

I logged about 12 years as a newspaper editor of one sort or another, with roughly seven of those years spent as a city editor. City editors typically supervise the largest staff of reporters and editors in the newsroom, which means you have to develop functional...

I’ve become a man of unreasonable beliefs. For instance: My computer automatically reset its clock this morning at 2 a.m., and the sunrise came an hour later. I consider this is an omen portending doom for civilization. That’s because I consider the...