A towering man faced the townspeople in the morning rain and chill. His parting words from a train made the throng of one thousand weep. He was near tears. The journey ahead would be long, hard and bloody. The date: Feb. 11, 1861. The town: Springfield, Illinois. The man: President-elect ...

President Joe Biden is boasting about the recent stock market rally. He’s right that stocks have been on a tear for the last 14 months. The S&P 500 hit 5,000 for the first time in history. That’s up from 500 some 30 years ago. Even with all our problems, the United States is the ...

The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts — but in more ways than we can imagine. Ukraine was invaded by a huge Russian state, with a population three-and-a- half times greater, a gross national product 10 times larger, and an area 30 times its ...

One of the Black history documentaries that I had marked on my to-see list is the recently released “Gospel” series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at ...

“How small, of all that human hearts endure / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.” Oliver Goldsmith’s lines — written 260 years ago, with help from his friend Samuel Johnson — are worth remembering in an election year. But it’s tough. Congress and the White House ...

I was unloading the car I’d rented when my neighbor asked where I’d gone. “The University of Dayton,” I told her, explaining that the university had received a treasure trove from Erma Bombeck’s family for their archives. “Who?” my neighbor asked. “Erma Bombeck.” “The ...