Opinion

America’s political scribes would do us a favor if they would drop the word “storied” before the name “Kennedy.” America does not have families that are royal, storied or otherwise special because of the circumstances of members’ birth. Or it shouldn’t.

The Kids Online Safety Act Imposes an Amorphous ‘Duty of Care’That Would Compromise Anonymous Speech and Restrict Access to Constitutionally Protected Content Late last month, a Senate committee considered a 50-page bill with a name that includes the word “kids” and approved it unanimously. Those two facts alone are enough to raise the suspicion that legislators are heading down a winding road toward a destination they only dimly perceive.

Dear Annie: I am currently married with no kids. I travel a lot for work and vacation. The issue is my wife’s sister, her husband and their kids. Three years ago, my wife and I allowed them to move into our home because their living situation was not great. They shared a small apartment that was overrun with rats and cockroaches. We told them that they could stay until they were able to get back on their feet. This was only supposed to be six months to a year. Annie, it’s been three years in counting with no end in sight.

With Mike Pence now qualifying for the Republican debate in Milwaukee on Aug. 23, there are now eight candidates qualified to participate.

Commissioner Who? For reasons that will become clear at the end of this column, I am updating another column I wrote about four years ago. I am going to give you a series of names.

Dear Annie: After 13 years, my boyfriend (he’s 49, and I’m 57) literally ghosted me for a whole week directly following a birthday party with the family at my parents’ house. There was no explanation why.

Banking is just about the most regulated industry in America. Yet, as we saw with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and others in recent months, lenders are not invulnerable to failure due to bad management or unexpected changes in economic conditions.

Dear Annie: So I have one for you. I was out of town working, and when I got home, my wife was gone! We were having some marriage problems but were supposed to see a therapist after I returned home. I’ll say it again: When I did get home, she was gone!

TORKIV, Ukraine — At the entrance to the village cemetery, where they buried Vasyl Pushkar, stands a tall, gray stone marker. The stone is engraved with an Orthodox cross and the words “Holodomor, 193233,” a memorial to the four million or more Ukrainian peasants who were starved to death by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin when their farms were collectivized and their harvests seized.