“We have a bunch of gangsters, thugs, punks, thieves, and drug smugglers running the country.” These words were spoken to me 36 years ago by Richard Morse, owner of the Hotel Oloffson, as we looked down from a balcony at Port-au-Prince, the fetid capital of Haiti. The Oloffson, built in the 19th century as a […]

EXCLUSIVE — Poorly articulated healthcare positions may have cost Republicans critical Senate races after Democrats used their policy stances against them in the 2026 midterm elections, new research shows. A Plymouth Union Public Research analysis obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner found that Democrats “spent heavily to make Senate Republicans own rising healthcare costs in […]

To state what should be obvious, I never knew Jimmy Stewart — I was 14 when he died in July 1997 — but I sometimes feel as though I talked to him from time to time. And, in a way, I did: For the last 18 years of his life, I was a friend of […]

We are a different country than we were a quarter-century ago, when federal agent Jack Bauer first stayed up all night in our service. For one thing, around 90 million of us weren’t born in time for the November 2001 premiere of Fox’s 24. Another 10 million current Americans hadn’t immigrated yet, to say nothing […]