I always felt Lear helped us better live peacefully and, one hopes, productively with each other at a time when the nation was becoming more racially, religiously and politically heterogeneous.

As the world watches Israel battle Hamas, Iran’s Yemen Houthi proxy army is using Tehran-provided missiles and drones to wage a shadow war on the global economy.

An analysis of Census data by Steve Camarota and his colleagues at the Center for Immigration Studies has found that a 4.5 million net increase in immigrants since Joe Biden took office has boosted the share of the foreign born to 15%, the highest ever recorded.

An effective way of handing elections to right-wing Republicans is to label large blocs of voters as wrong by virtue of their gender, race, ethnicity, age. Those are physical characteristics, not walking opinions.

Almost nothing makes me happier than riding on a train. That said, the appropriation of $500,000 to study expanding the Downeaster passenger run to Rockland is overkill.

To dump Ukraine now would be completely gratuitous.

This cheery herald of Christmas, with its serrated green leaves and red berries, has become an invader, crowding out native plants on the forest floor. And the most fearsome of the 500 species is the beloved English holly.