It's never been easy to be a man. Once upon a time men had to stand at the mouth of the cave, protecting their women and children from roving predatory beasts. (Come to think of it, some of that job still remains!) Published June 12, 2017
If you were to ask Jane Q. Public, she would probably say, "All we want is to be left alone. We want to live in peace. But when evil is dedicated against us, we have no choice. We must act." Published June 5, 2017
On Memorial Day, when we honor those who died to keep Americans safe, it seems most fitting to consider the complex issue of danger and safety in our present world. Published May 28, 2017
Many Israel-watchers don't believe in coincidence. As they wait for President Trump to arrive, they ponder the significance of the fact that his visit is happening during the week of Jerusalem's jubilee celebrations. Fifty years ago this week Jerusalem was liberated from Jordan, which had captured it in a war of aggression 19 years earlier. Published May 22, 2017
Journalists from around the world gathered last week at the Jerusalem Press Club for a conference on Freedom of the Press in the Digital Age, with veteran journalist Carl Bernstein as the keynote speaker. Published May 15, 2017
In my first year as a practicing psychologist, a patient asked, "can you help me get into a nursing home? I know I don't need to be there, but at home I have to choose between buying medicine and buying food. I can't afford both." Published May 8, 2017
Ann Coulter is the most recent victim of the tyranny of thugs on college campuses. Published May 1, 2017
Business is booming in the international terrorism industry. Published April 25, 2017
When a president shoots himself in the foot, the entire country suffers a self-inflicted wound. Published April 3, 2017
How did British-born Adrian Russell Ajao become Kahlid Masood, the terrorist who maimed and murdered innocent people in the heart of London last week? Published March 27, 2017
President Trump discovered that the health care issue is complicated. Published March 20, 2017
Last week's International Women's Day started me thinking about the world of women's work, including the women's work we seldom talk about: prostitution. Published March 13, 2017
Financial mismanagement is rampant at the Pentagon. And the Trump administration wants to give them tens of billions dollars more. Published March 7, 2017
More than 150 tombstones in a St. Louis Jewish cemetery were vandalized last week. Nearly 100 more were found overturned on Sunday in a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. Published February 27, 2017
The West needs NATO, but not your grandpa's NATO. Published February 20, 2017
"I walk in prayer," replied my colleague when I asked how she coped with the stress of journalism in the nation's capital these days. Published February 13, 2017
What does it mean for a country to have a presidential adviser say, as Steve Bannon is reported to have said last summer, that he aims to "blow everything up" and "destroy the existing social and political order?" It means uncertainty. Published February 7, 2017
It's hard to imagine that Pope Francis and President Trump might have anything in common, but last week they did. The Vatican and the White House both spoke out critically about the media. Published January 30, 2017
Like all previous presidents in my lifetime, President Trump ran against "Washington" and not incidentally, against the elites. This approach is Campaign Strategy 101 for all first-term candidates who had not been vice president first. Published January 23, 2017
With a press in thrall to every Twitter outrage du jour, and the media spotlight trained tightly on the upcoming inauguration and its opposition, there is little national attention left over for what the nation fears most. Corruption. Published January 17, 2017
