MEMORIAL DAY gives us a long weekend and marks the beginning of summer, but I remember back in my Boy Scout youth attending a service at a military cemetery and listening to a chaplain talk about men who willingly gave their lives for their country, and heard taps played by a bugler in the d…

WHEN a Wall Street Journal editorial warned this week against any precipitous U.S. withdrawal that might imperil our gains in Afghanistan, an exasperated President Trump shot back:

NEW YORK — COVID-19 is devolving into a political cancer: mail-in-ballot elections.

THE GOVERNMENT has closed most schools.

ON MARCH 24, President Donald Trump said he wanted the country and the economy “opened up and just raring to go by Easter.”

JENNY cut my hair yesterday out on the balcony in the sun and she kept laughing as she did, which doesn’t instill confidence to hear your haircutter laugh, but at least the hair stays out of my eyes and the worst part (she says) is in back, and we’re in isolation so who cares, and at my age …

HERE’S a thought experiment for you. Would you rather have a Princeton education, or do without the education but get the Princeton diploma?

WHERE does America go to get its three years back?

LAST Sunday, Mother’s Day, made me think how my mom warned me, as a young teen: “Work hard! Or you’ll freeze in the dark!”

UNDER fire for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump, his campaign and his party are moving to lay blame for the 80,000 U.S. dead at the feet of the Communist Party of China and, by extension, its longtime General Secretary, President Xi Jinping.

I MARRIED a perfectionist and am glad for it especially during this pandemonium or pandora or veranda or whatever it is we’re going through these days, even my dream life is clearer, more detailed than in normal times, which now are only a memory, those evenings when we ate dinner in a crowd…

DID COVID-19 innocently escape a bat-virus-infected wet market in Wuhan, China, in a bizarre case of dinner becoming disease? Or did this pathogen mysteriously flee the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), perhaps after starring in experiments — nefarious or otherwise?

AFTER Pearl Harbor, FDR declared that his role of “Dr. New Deal” had been superseded, replaced by his new role, “Dr. Win the War.”

SPRING is here at last in our northern latitude and that is the news that transcends all other news. It arrived Sunday and we observed it by enjoying our first outdoor meal on our New York balcony, sitting in the shade of a potted tree, with two vegan-leaning friends and in their honor there…

RECENTLY, many politicians were in such a hurry to ban plastic bags.