Unfortunately, 2024 politics appears more important than Iran’s almost certain pursuit of a nuclear bomb and the missile capability to deliver it by the world’s top promoter of terrorism.

As a leading educator on birds — and humanity as well — Christian Cooper has earned his wings.

If anything has been established in the courtroom the past couple of weeks of the Trump hush money trial, it’s that Alvin Bragg doesn’t have much of a legal case. But he doesn’t need one.

Using human shields makes it very difficult to assess (“assess” being media slang for judge) Israeli combat actions in the Gaza Strip much less accuse Israel (“accuse” being media slang for condemn) of committing war crimes.

The president played the race card, the white supremacy card and the guilt card. In a poker game it would be called three of a kind.

Space is indeed the final frontier … for romantic nonsense that ignores human realities and the imperatives of war-fighting.

The push to eliminate flavored vaping products in Maine overlooks the significant benefits that vaping offers to adult smokers seeking to quit. By embracing vaping to migrate adults off cigarettes and respecting the preferences of adults who choose to use nicotine products, policymakers can make meaningful strides in reducing smoking rates and improving public health outcomes.

Whether or not the volume, rage and heated rhetoric of the protests in signs, songs and chants is overtly antisemitic or not, it is not hard for me as a Black man to empathize when I hear some of my Jewish friends tell me the horror they feel at hearing their kids speak of feeling under siege for their Jewish identity. That it’s an election year only adds to their unease.

Complaining about the intensely Catholic subject matter of his address is a little like listening to the keynote at a philately convention and being shocked that it’s all about stamp collecting.

Instead of members of Congress who shout others down, we need people who lift us up, overcoming evil talk with kind, encouraging and optimistic words.