News of Donald Sutherland’s death at age 88 took me back to a day in 1971 when he was protesting the Vietnam War onstage with Jane Fonda, and I was one of about 1,000 off-duty soldiers in their audience.

As an experienced class clown who long has felt the power of comedy to be vastly underappreciated, I was more than tickled to hear that Pope Francis had invited more than 100 comedians to an audience at the Vatican.

“The Blues Brothers” is a key piece of American popular culture, holds up well even today, and did much to revive the careers of such blues greats as Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Cab Calloway, who made cameos.

The Greatest Generation fought in World War II and saved the world from fascism. Its aging children now have an opportunity to do the same.

The debate between President Biden and former president Donald Trump Thursday night on CNN ought to be more than rehearsed answers and soundbites we’ve heard before.

Too often, our community sees violence against women as isolated incidents that are private in nature. In fact, data shows that domestic violence is a profound indicator of risks to the broader community.

Cameras are everywhere. They capture license plates of every driver on the roads. They are in stores, recording the activities of both shoppers and shoplifters. In New York City, for example, they are all over the subway system, which is why people who commit gruesome crimes there are now quickly apprehended.

We can do without the nostalgia unless it helps us to deal with the challenges of today’s world.

Elections can’t be legitimate only if your side wins and illegitimate if the other side is victorious. That attitude is the fastest way to undermine the United States into divided states and a perpetually divided people.