Can Trump transform himself into a “new Trump” and mean it, or just fake it? Either way, he could upset the political dynamic and expectations between now, the debates and the election.

As if suspicions, partisan and otherwise, have not dealt enough blows to our criminal justice system in recent years, along comes Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s flag flap.

The Eastern Shield tells us Poland sees itself as the next Ukraine — or Europe’s Taiwan.

Unfortunately, 2024 politics appears more important than Iran’s almost certain pursuit of a nuclear bomb and the missile capability to deliver it by the world’s top promoter of terrorism.

As a leading educator on birds — and humanity as well — Christian Cooper has earned his wings.

If anything has been established in the courtroom the past couple of weeks of the Trump hush money trial, it’s that Alvin Bragg doesn’t have much of a legal case. But he doesn’t need one.

The president played the race card, the white supremacy card and the guilt card. In a poker game it would be called three of a kind.

Space is indeed the final frontier … for romantic nonsense that ignores human realities and the imperatives of war-fighting.

Using human shields makes it very difficult to assess (“assess” being media slang for judge) Israeli combat actions in the Gaza Strip much less accuse Israel (“accuse” being media slang for condemn) of committing war crimes.

Whether or not the volume, rage and heated rhetoric of the protests in signs, songs and chants is overtly antisemitic or not, it is not hard for me as a Black man to empathize when I hear some of my Jewish friends tell me the horror they feel at hearing their kids speak of feeling under siege for their Jewish identity. That it’s an election year only adds to their unease.