Artemis II

Artemis II: The original movie was better

What can compare to “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”?

Baby Boomers

Guest essay: Boomers went from analog to digital

They are the only generation in human history to have lived a fully analog childhood and a fully digital adulthood. No other generation will ever cross that particular bridge again.

Reparations

Guest essay: A path to recovery from slavery

“One of my concerns with much of the reparation movement and with frameworks such as critical race theory is that they often place people into permanent categories: victim and victimizer, oppressed and oppressor.”

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez: The making of an unperson

You might say it was like white Americans learning that George Washington, among other Founding Fathers, was a slave holder. In our present culture, that is evil.

DEAD BEAT CITY

Philly is a snail when it comes to paying its bills

90% “of the more than 12,000 outside service contracts that the city signed from fiscal 2020 through January 2025” were paid late.

Book Review

Is the middle class dead and gone forever?

In framing the book, Dickerson puts the spotlight on her own parents, who did break into the middle class, where Dickerson finds herself today.

Donald J. Trump

What to know about the Trump gold coin

The back is a bald eagle in flight. Fleeing in embarrassment?

Kathy Hochul

NY gov needs the rich to pay the bills

“Maybe our first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring home,” she said.

War With Iran

CNN viewers say U.S. is LOSING the war. Please explain

Iran has lost control of its skies, the seas, its ability to fire ICBMs, its long-time Supreme Leader, almost everything but its bowels.

Michael J. Fox

Appreciating Michael J. Fox, the man

After a period of depression and boozing, he straightened out and launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the leading funder for research into fighting the disease.

Zionism

You need not be Jewish to be a Zionist

Anti-Semites manage to believe in contradictory myths — that Jews are the energy spreading world communism, while at the same time controlling Wall Street, the fountainhead of capitalism.

American Muslims

GOP congressman’s bigotry beats reason

What Ogles has done is blame an entire group for the misdeeds of a few. That is called guilt by association and that’s not how U.S. law works.