Why do we admire Volodymyr Zelenskyy? The question almost answers itself.

"And they're off," as the callers of horse races say, but in this case, it means the government will no longer enforce mask mandates on airplanes, trains, buses, subways and other forms of public transportation.

Americans who subscribe to "traditional values" have had to put up with a lot from the left in the name of the First Amendment.

There are reports that Russia may be planning to use — or, according to unverified reports from local officials in Mariupol, might have already used — chemical weapons as part of its offensive in eastern Ukraine.

The deadline for filing federal income taxes is later than usual this year.

The battle over whether parents or public schools and elites should decide what goes into the minds and souls of students has entered a second stage.

Mitch McConnell knew this would happen.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cannot reasonably be accused of always playing to his party's lowest common denominator.

Historical parallels often spring to mind when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Much has changed since then-President Donald Trump invoked emergency powers to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Horrific scenes of mass murder on the outskirts of Kyiv should appall everybody and surprise nobody.

Go after the hated rich, make up phony stories, hit them hard with taxes on their wealth, listen to the applause, figure on Democrats now winning the midterm elections and pretend it's all about debt reduction and compassion for the average American.

If you're like most Americans, you don't think Joe Biden is doing well as president.

Nearly 60% of Americans say they worry a great deal about inflation, according to a new Gallup poll. Apparently, Joe Biden isn't one of them.

During the 1994 congressional campaign, Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and Dick Armey, R-Texas, drew up what they called a Contract with America.

In 2020, I wrote about how my family, which at the time included three preschool-aged children, opted to skip the Super Bowl to avoid the hyper-sexualized halftime show.

Right now Vladimir Putin is losing the battle for Ukraine. His maximal goals have been abandoned (for now), his troops around Kyiv are in retreat, his imperial dreams are being disavowed.

The conventional wisdom is that Vladimir Putin catastrophically miscalculated.

It's an old Washington political trick. When you're in trouble, change the subject.

President Biden's speech from Warsaw Saturday night reminded me of two previous presidents who delivered speeches confronting the autocracy that was then the Soviet Union and is now Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, a man Biden has rightly called a war criminal.

As people abandon masks and gather in bigger groups, it's important to remember that COVID-19 is still with us.

When one sits down to make a deal with the devil, it is the devil who usually wins. That's because he is "crafty," as the book of Genesis describes him.

If you've paid any attention to the very public, very divisive debates over school administration, policy, curricula and academic outcomes, you know that we have yet to experience all of the aftershocks from two years of pandemic learning.