BY SUSAN ESTRICH The first time I ever went “online” to do a search on the “World Wide Web” [yes, we used to call it that], I figured I’d pick a subject I knew a lot about and see what was there. So I typed in the word “rape” – a subject I learned about […]

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema could scarcely wait three days after the Georgia Senate runoff, which cemented Democratic control of the United States Senate, to announce that she no longer considers herself a member of that party and has changed her registration to independent. A politician who often seems obsessed with drawing attention to herself, the Arizona […]

Israelis have likened the brutal assault from Gaza to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. At Dawn We Slept was a title of a book about that intelligence failure. As Israel investigates the complacency that left it open to a bloody invasion, Americans must ask themselves, Are we also sleeping? Americans, like Israelis until a […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH There have to be lines. We are not in the business of regime change. We cannot be the world’s police. There are civil wars we won’t stop, abusive leaders we won’t depose, corrupt governments we will decline to see as such. But there have to be some things that even the worst […]

BY FROMA HARROP Like many others, I can’t resist academic studies on happiness. They often come up with persuasive reasons some seem to be happier than others. I’m always on the lookout for pointers. That said, there’s no happy-mometer to push under someone’s tongue to measure contentment with scientific confidence. So some skepticism is warranted. […]