The vapors over Donald Trump’s threatening statements are rich coming from people who have targeted their enemy by any means necessary for years now. The Russian-collusion investigation, the Hunter Biden cover-up and the ongoing, politically timed legal onslaught against Donald Trump are among the most shameful and tawdry efforts to destroy a political opponent in memory.

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.

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.

We are paying a price for the jettisoning of standards by which right and wrong, good and evil can be defined and judged. If everybody is right, if truth is subjective, then nothing can be said to be wrong, which has brought us to the current moral chaos and intellectual flabbiness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Television producer Norman Lear undermined the power of bigotry with humor.