Something strange is going on with The New York Times and the 1619 Project.

From the moment Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, was made aware of the threat of COVID-19, he acted faster than most other states and the federal government.

The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives conservatives and Republicans what they claim to have wanted since judicial activism became the norm in the 1960s.

In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93% of CNN's coverage of the Trump administration was negative.

For years, the Trump administration's peacemaking efforts in the Middle East have been the object of relentless derision in elite foreign-policy circles, some of it justified.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports the American government will soon reach a debt level equaling its entire gross domestic product.

The cable networks, including Fox News, could talk of little else Labor Day weekend but The Atlantic magazine piece by Jeffrey Goldberg alleging President Donald Trump had said Americans who have died in wars are "losers" and "suckers."

"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man wealthy, healthy and wise" is a saying of Benjamin Franklin's, meaning he must have gone to bed early.

Vicky Osterweil, the author of "In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action," is getting her 15 minutes of fame thanks to a segment on NPR in which she said some really mind-bogglingly dumb, indefensibly evil and fascinatingly reactionary things.

A frightening 70% of millennials say they would back a socialist candidate for office.

The Labor Day holiday, dating to the early 20th century, was envisioned as a public celebration of "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of the community.

Joe Biden and his handlers know that he should be out and about, weighing in daily on the issues of the campaign.

The ouster of Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. over allegations of sexual misconduct and other behavior that falls short of the university's code of conduct - not to mention Scripture - is another in a long list of object lessons each generation of Christians seems to have to learn anew.

Last week, a mob of white protesters swarmed a white woman eating dinner in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, as Donald Trump was about to accept the Republican nomination from the South Lawn of the White House with warnings that "No one will be safe in Biden's America," National Public Radio was doing its small part to make sure the president would be re-elected.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice protests have come together to produce one of the strangest ironies of 2020: Many of the same people who publicly support defunding the police and curtailing the reach of the criminal justice system are calling for law enforcement to police minor behaviors.

The two political conventions are finally over. To paraphrase Charles Dickens, one convention promoted the best of times, the other the worst of times.

It is hard to tell what the current revolutionary violence in our major cities is all about.

When the levees broke under Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers was roasted for spending billions and still failing to protect Americans.

Labeling another person has become a popular political pastime.

If Joe Biden isn't careful, Donald Trump might have a new nickname for him: "Shutdown Joe." Or maybe, "Shut Down Joe."

President Donald Trump recently ordered a 12,000-troop reduction in American military personnel stationed in Germany. That leaves about 24,000 American soldiers still in the country.

In George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah," the serpent says to Eve in the Garden of Eden: "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"