On Monday, April 29, two amazing things happened. The first is that I learned who Jason Collins is; the second, and admittedly more important thing, is that Jason Collins revealed he was gay, becoming...

Let’s talk about a weapon that has killed more than 1,000,000 Americans in the past quarter century and injured many millions more. By proving minimal competence at wielding it, most Americans over...

Recently, I have been thinking about the state of our country and how to make it more secure. We are not on a path for sustainable growth in our economic, fiscal or environmental sectors. As The New York...

For most of my past, I’ve never been one for flags, ceremonies and rhetoric — the antidote to which being a healthy dose of sarcasm and satire. After all, it’s naive at best; might as well remain...

On March 29, high school senior Suzy Weiss wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about a batch of Ivy League rejection letters she received. The article was cynical, angry and popular, and,...