Thanks to the beneficence of the Internal Revenue Service - and the fallout from COVID-19 - we half of Americans who pay federal income taxes have been given until May 17 to file.

Actions have consequences. So do inactions.

The Central Intelligence Agency is always looking to recruit new agents, and advertising is one way it has done so in the past.

Years ago, Alexis Tsipras, the party leader of Greece's Coalition of the Radical Left, surprised me with a question.

The contrast between President Biden's first address to Congress last Wednesday night and the Republican response delivered by Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, reminded me of another occasion between one long-winded and another profound speaker.

Recently, James Carville, the unfrozen Clintonite of Democratic politics, stirred a predictable controversy by complaining about "wokeness" in an interview with Sean Illing of Vox.

President Joe Biden marked his first 100 days in office last week by laying out a massive spending plan, as well as massive tax increases that would only partially cover the costs while inflicting significant damage to the economy.

President Joe Biden's address to Congress focused rather heavily on domestic matters, particularly his $2.3 trillion "infrastructure" package.

The state of Virginia, which used to be reliably red and mostly conservative, is providing more evidence of an increasingly blue and liberal hue.

Americans breathed a collective sigh of relief last week after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd. The crime was heinous, the verdict just, the moral neat. If you think that systemic racism is the defining fact of race relations in 21st-century America, then Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck is its defining image.

Illinois state parks have plenty of modern amenities, but some of their best features date back more than 80 years.

Protesters in Minneapolis, and, for that matter, throughout the country and across the seas, signaled through shouting, jumping, carrying signs and in some instances vandalism that a jury had darned well better find Derek Chauvin guilty in his trial for murder. It did.

When it comes to health care, the Biden administration has a clear goal: to strip away state flexibility and consolidate greater federal control — so much so that it's willing to nullify settled agreements that the government has had with many states.

By appointing a commission to study changes to the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden has alarmed the opponents of court-packing while disappointing the supporters.

There is no doubt in our hearts and minds that President Joe Biden, whose son fought in one of America's post-9/11 wars, was torn when he announced that the U.S. plans to withdraw all of its fighting men and women from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 - the 20th anniversary of an unprecedented attack on our nation that claimed the lives of 2,977 innocent men, women and children.

There is little in public affairs as entertaining as a politician who has set himself free.

I once boarded a flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Kabul, Afghanistan, alongside a team of Afghan soccer players — teenage girls in red uniforms, chatting and laughing much as they might have anywhere else in the world.

The first question most people ask after mass shootings like the one last week at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis in which a 19-year-old male murdered eight people before taking his own life is "how did he get the gun?"

If one can say the pandemic has had any positive side effect, it has been to help us focus on what the loss of liberties looks like.

President Biden's announced intention to complete the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, exactly 20 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, will complete a goal former President Trump wanted to meet, but did not, following advice from military leaders, who convinced him that a May 1 deadline was a bad idea.

To understand how Ron DeSantis last week became the apparent front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — and how the liberal media helped the Florida governor get there — watch the video of his March 22 encounter with "60 Minutes" reporter Sharyn Alfonsi.

President Joe Biden, the great bipartisan unifier, has figured it out again, namely that certain Republican politicians in Georgia are reinstituting the Jim Crow submersion of Black rights and that you can find it in a voting law they recently constructed.

Back in the day when "Saturday Night Live" was funny, Chevy Chase would open the "Weekend Update" segment by saying, "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not."