I got a cell phone when I was 13 years old. It seemed normal, but I never should have been making decisions that could affect my whole life. I was just a child. I think that is what surprises me the most when I look back. Not that I became addicted. Not that it negatively impacted my mental ...

If Pete Buttigieg is the key to winning more Black votes for Democrats in South Carolina, then Black voters should be very clear about what they really want. The former secretary of transportation under President Joe Biden is campaigning in South Carolina under the assumption that his ...

Have you ever considered having your own country? A friend and I used to daydream about this in high school. The mountains were high and the emperor far away, as the Chinese proverb goes, so a spread of a few hundred acres, maybe the size of Monaco, seemed possible with $100-an-acre land. ...

Well, it's back-to-school season again, and parents across the country know what that means: It's time to download some new apps. Yes, you already have 10 apps; that's true. There's one for the park district, one for summer camp, one for your oldest kid's teacher to post weekly updates, ...

I remember the high school lunch table fairly well. Most days, it was a handful of fellas fresh out of their third or fourth class just raring to blow off steam. In fact, your average lunch period functioned much like a newspaper: you'd sit down and almost always learn something you didn't ...

The most surprising result in the batch of primaries held this week over the vast stretch of America from Florida through Wyoming to Alaska was the defeat of famed anti-Trump whistleblower Alexander Vindman by state Rep. Angie Nixon in the contest for the Democratic nomination against ...