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Christa Pike and the incomplete justice of death

Why do we kill? It's a question unlikely to ever be answered to any degree of satisfaction, but one I found myself asking the other day after hearing about the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. In reading about the story, I learned that Pike and I are almost the same ...

Britain bails out possible terrorists

President Trump says he was "surprised" that Britain released five suspected terrorists on bail. The suspects were arrested after a farmer saw the masked men and several vans 100 yards from a British air base the U.S. has used to conduct bombing runs on Iran. British authorities said tests on ...

Trump's 'truth' betrayed by White House chatbot

Since President Donald Trump displays a ferocious disdain for any suggestion that he could be wrong about anything, I hope he will not try to consult the AI fact-checker he has unleashed against himself. Last week, the White House unveiled America.gov, a search tool it declared to be no less ...

Don't let Flydubai terror scare derail Abraham Accords progress

Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace. It's why they fly planes into buildings, don explosive vests, and rain indiscriminate missiles on civilian populations. The response to such terrorism isn't to cower. It is to lead with boldness, courage and, sometimes, outright heroism. The world just saw precisely such heroism in the high drama aboard Flydubai Flight 1073, from Dubai to Tel Aviv. There was the Indian national pilot, Smit Machchhar, who, though bleeding badly after he was brutally stabbed by his terrorist Omani national copilot, had the presence of mind to open ...

Trump's populist image is dead

As predictions of a blue wave swell, it's worthwhile to remember that polls are sometimes wrong, that surveys have tended to undercount Trump voters (though they have been better in midterms), that professional prognosticators can err, and that Allan Lichtman is only right when he's lucky. And ...