Opinion

My husband went to California on a business trip a few weeks ago. While he was away, I found myself doing something completely out of character -- switching on the TV while cooking or reading the paper. A silent house felt lonely. In 1960, just 13% of households were comprised of single adults. By 2021, that figure had more than doubled to 28%.

How many people believe, really believe, in freedom of speech? Or, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, not just “free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate”?

Americans spent more money in 2022 buying imports from a country governed by a genocidal, communist regime than they spent on imports from any other nation on Earth. Specifically, U.S.

Dear Annie: I’ve noticed that you often, if not always, tell your readers to try counseling. I thought it might be helpful if your readers heard from a believer.

And so some angry, mentally ill person decides to shoot random human beings for no particular reason. Although mass killings have become commonplace -- the one at Michigan State University was the 67th this year, and we’re only in February -- something feels different this time.

Today is the 48th day of 2023 and the 59th day of winter. T ODAY’S HISTORY: In 1801, the U.S.

Dear Annie: I was hoping you could help me out with a family problem. I’m a woman in my early 20s who was adopted at age 5 by a gay couple (two men). One of them, “Eric,” is fairly kind and docile but is only comfortable with surface-level emotions and discussions. My other “dad,” “Tom,” is another matter entirely. He is aggressive, contemptuous and hostile. Whenever I have had life challenges, he blames me and screams and rants for hours until I’m a mess of tears and feel infinitely worse than I did to begin with.

Scorecards matter. Last Sunday’s Super Bowl 38-35 victory by the Chiefs over the Eagles gave Kansas City bragging rights over Philadelphia as NFL champions. Today’s headlines could also read “Raptors 5+, Chinese Communist balloons 0.”

Winston Churchill’s proposition that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others that have been tried” has picked up support in recent years, courtesy of two of the world’s foremost democracies. The United States and Israel, which have much in common generally, have each given democracy skeptics plenty of cause for skepticism, each emerging from elections that, however democratic, produced results that were godawful.

Dear Annie: My husband had worked at the same company for the last nine years. A few weeks ago, they called him into an office at 4 p.m. and asked him to shut the door and have a seat. They informed him that they were letting him go.