As we approach the dawn of our 250th year as a nation, we would be remiss if we did not take time to reflect on the sacrifices of those countless ancestors who gave their lives to help bring us to this point. We find it particularly poignant at this time that the prototypes for Memorial Day ...

No matter how we may try to sanitize the past, the fact remains that history is an ugly place filled with sporadic wondrous people doing great deeds. They are, however, the exception and not the rule. We are left to grapple with this in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling, ...

You can argue against the alleged merits of taxation if you so desire — certainly there are reasons to do so. Nobody enjoys the experience of paying taxes — of watching your hard-earned money, the literal fruits of your labor, going to pay for society’s upkeep. But we live in a world ...

Whenever our community experiences a tragedy, we are faced with extraordinarily difficult ethical decisions. As journalists, our responsibility is to inform the public about events that shape our community, even when those events involve profound loss. We do this work because an informed ...

When’s the last time you had a cup of orange juice? When you think of orange juice, you probably think of Florida — although, of course, they are hardly the only place that produces oranges. Here’s the thing: Florida oranges are doomed. There is an outstanding piece published by ...

Whether you loved him or hated him, you cannot deny the influence Viktor Orban has had on the world during his time in politics — nor the iron grip he had on his own country’s electoral machine. And yet, on Sunday, the people of Hungary decided that, after 16 years in office, enough was ...