If people can’t feel safe in their houses of worship, schools and while walking down a street, then we have a problem that is deeper than terrorism and lawlessness. It is a problem of the spirit, which even government can’t reach or control.

Who among us doesn’t have an unflattering headshot, gawky high school picture or gag photo of us clowning around? With any luck, the worst of them are hidden in drawers or pasted in albums (if they haven’t been ripped up). The ones online, alas, we’re stuck with for eternity.

The Trump-DeSantis storyline is inherently alluring, given the chances of a collision between two men who have been allies and the possibility of the subordinate in the relationship eclipsing the figure who helped to elevate him.

It is past time — by almost 15 years and counting — for President Biden and other Democrats to disabuse themselves of the naive notion that the other party still has any interest in helping them govern. If democracy is to be saved, it will be done not with the Republican Party, but despite it. Failure to understand that and strategize accordingly wastes time America does not have.

In their Build Back Better Act, congressional Democrats have betrayed President Biden’s promise. Embedded in this multi-trillion dollar package is a prescription drug price-fixing mechanism, whose effect will be to greatly reduce cancer research and thus hinder the discovery of new cancer treatments.

Considering the number of people who think that rules apply only to the rest of us, this may well be known as a new age of hubris. Arrogance and its subset hubris surround us. And that trait may perfectly unite the Jan. 6 insurrectionists and their leader with other politicians, entertainers and athletes.

It was with dry eyes that Australians waved goodbye to Novak Djokovic, the tennis superstar their country sent packing because he wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Republican (governor of Virginia) issued an executive order allowing parents to decide whether their kids will wear masks in school, and met an instant wall of resistance from Democratic-controlled counties and criticism from the White House press secretary Jen Psaki. A Washington Post headline said that Youngkin is “terrifying people.”

RUBK explained: “Rubik” as in the puzzle Rubik’s Cube. RUBK is Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan. The demographics, natural resources and economic capacities these four nations possess is a geostrategic formula for a global power.