Former President Donald Trump emerged from 38 days of self-enforced silence for a lengthy speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, that was frequently interrupted with boisterous applause and chants from an adoring, mostly white and older crowd.

President Biden has challenged those who oppose the Democrats' $1.9 trillion bill disingenuously dubbed "COVID relief," or the more deceitful "American Rescue Plan."

President Joe Biden says he's ready to resuscitate the Iran deal former President Barack Obama disastrously gave us if Iran quits its advanced uranium enrichment, the kind that could ultimately deliver nuclear bombs.

In 2015, Bon Appétit ran an article by food writer Dawn Perry about hamantaschen, the triangular cookies that are a tradition during the Jewish festival of Purim. It was headlined — brace yourself for outrage — "How to Make Actually Good Hamantaschen."

What is it about people who are successful in one field and believe that gives them credence to serve as an expert in a totally unrelated field?

The people who hand out Emmy Awards should ask New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return the one they gave him.

If you had a problem, and someone with a 1,000 years of wisdom and experience offered you guidance, would you listen?

If the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump were a play, it would close after one performance. The plot is known, the outcome is certain, and the drama is contrived.

The problem with free money is that it leads to an addiction much like an addiction to drugs.

Last week, Nicholas Kristof addressed his New York Times column to his conservative hometown friends in Yamhill, Oregon, urging them to hold liberals accountable while doing the same for right-wing extremists, kooks and charlatans.

Many service and hospitality businesses in Tennessee, already struggling during the pandemic, would be hard-pressed to pay a $15 minimum wage to their lowest-skilled workers.

Second only to his fixation on "climate change" is President Biden's focus on "systemic racism."

Sen. Ted Cruz seems to have a penchant for improbable causes. If he's not trying to audit the presidential election results, he's seeking to amend the Constitution.

President Joe Biden delivered a memorable inaugural address. In lofty rhetoric intended to echo through the ages, he spoke of unity and healing to a badly fractured nation.

My father did not spend a lot of time advising me on how to manage my affairs.

President Biden and his press secretary, Jen Psaki, have assured us he is a "devout Catholic" who "attends church regularly."

Donald Trump's narcissistic, sometimes cataclysmic moral ineptitude hurt America in two different ways, first by his own attacks on what is so precious to our way of life and next by inspiring his political enemies to join the party.

President Joe Biden has proposed a nationwide $15 minimum wage as part of his so-called "American Rescue Plan."

In 1980, singer Neil Diamond recorded a song that celebrated American immigration, first in the early 1900s and then more recently. The song included this chorus:

After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, I wrote that the most important task for people — particularly those disconcerted by his election (as I was) — was to focus on the things closer to home.

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'." — John Greenleaf Whittier

The old saying "Revenge is a dish best served cold" is understood to mean it is better to deliver retribution for a perceived or actual injustice after time has passed, in order for it to be done dispassionately.

We often hear calls for national unity when presidents are inaugurated. And we're sure to hear them again, despite the fact that we are still divided, red and blue, liberal and conservative, coastal city and heartland town.