Dear former President Barack Obama, During former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, you chastised “the brothers” for what you perceived as their reluctance to vote for a Black female. You said: “We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all ...

A recent poll found 65% of Americans considered President Donald Trump to be conservative or very conservative. That I do not understand. Trump is the opposite of a conservative. A conservative conserves, maintaining what is good and just and building upon it. Donald Trump is no ...

“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” — Henry Higgins Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay ...

Donald Trump’s sudden demolition of the White House’s East Wing may have been ugly, but it sure is a metaphor. It’s hard to pinpoint the most stomach-turning aspect of the razing, though Americans, who disapprove of it by 53% to 23% according to a new YouGov America poll, have multiple ...

The phrase about turning off the lights when one leaves someplace appears to have originated with two real estate agents in Seattle. It was 1971 and Boeing was laying off employees during an economic downturn. It was meant to be humorous, though the unemployed probably didn’t see it that way. ...

For the past 20 years, the University of Notre Dame has sponsored a yearlong dialogue on a given theme, with featured speakers, panels and other public events at which the year’s theme is discussed and debated. This year’s theme is “Cultivating Hope.” Two weeks ago, Cardinal Robert ...