TikTok’s role in torching so many American brain cells would seem reason enough to get rid of it. But that’s not why national security experts and politicians of both parties want it banned in the United States.

Vladimir Putin bets cold, hungry and bombing-terrorized Ukrainians will surrender, even if the British, Germans, Japanese, Ethiopians, et al. did not.

Our family singalongs are not the same without my dad’s presence, and our holiday traditions have changed over time. But in the privacy of our homes and the recesses of our minds, those familiar Yuletide carols continue to evoke his spirit.

Between the “1812 Overture” and “The Nutcracker,” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has a big hand in celebrations of American holidays — the overture captures and exemplifies the thunderous spirit of national celebration of July 4, and “The Nutcracker” the child-centric magic and joy of the American Christmas.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has earned some recent notoriety for casting doubt on the COVID-19 vaccines and attacking the experts who happen to know about them.

Throughout history, three factors have contributed to a nation’s decline. One is massive national debt. The second is losing a shared sense of moral values. The third is uncontrolled immigration without assimilation. All three are now challenging the very existence of the country. Will no one enforce immigration laws?

The couple’s entire livelihood now depends on revisiting the institution that traumatized them to begin with.

After many decades of trying, researchers have finally achieved a critical milestone in their quest to develop fusion power, bringing the world considerably closer to the vision Arthur Eddington first articulated more than a century ago.

Like almost everything else he’s done lately, his early announcement of his next presidential campaign has proved a flagrant political misjudgment.