Equivocation in Iran may backfire

Reports about a U.S.-Iran peace deal have been served up in recent days as a tasting menu. Instead, it increasingly seems like a palate cleanser.

UNC-Chapel Hill turns to Church

When addressing the 2026 graduates of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, country music star Eric Church used words rarely heard in secular campus rites, such as “faith,” “family,” “grace” and “soul.”

Angels, demons and UFO questions

For centuries, stargazers of many kinds have debated the meaning of unidentified objects in the heavens and encounters with mysterious beings on earth.

Case for conservation in conservatism

PARSONS, West Virginia – Under a canopy of red and sugar maple, yellow poplar and sweet birch trees sits a colorful vernal riot of wildflowers like Canada violet, phlox and Solomon’s seal – and a case study of a modern collision of two of the hardiest ideological perennials on the political landscape of America: conservation and conservatism.

Barney Frank’s deafening whisper

BOSTON – As he lies dying, the man who once snarled from the floor of the House of Representatives – whose rhetorical rockets’ red blare mercilessly exposed the logistical flaws in the arguments of his overmatched opponents, whose piercing, pitiless wit stung his rivals, whose caustic asides roiled his political caucus – can barely muster a whisper.

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