Half of senate bills die in committee

We’ve officially surpassed our first deadline of the legislative session.

Shifting with the political wind

As I write, a 40-mile-long convoy of Russian "peacekeepers" – i.e., tanks, armored personnel carriers and mobile artillery – was approaching Kyiv with the clear intent of bludgeoning the Ukrainian people into surrender.

The value of studying history

We have just heard the president's State of the Union address. It was delivered in a fraught time by a man freighted with responsibility. He hit the right notes and struck the right tone.

We are all witnesses

Many are calling Russia's invasion of Ukraine the TikTok “ war," reports CNN.New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman announces, "Welcome to World War Wired – the first war in a totally interconnected world.""What is coming out of Ukraine is simply impossible to produce on such a scale," writes...

Okla., U.S. owe a lot to Sen. Inhofe

I was surprised but not shocked when U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe announced he would be ending his more than 35-year career representing our Oklahoma values in the nation’s Capitol.

Has Biden’s presidency changed?

Russia's war on Ukraine comes at a moment of political weakness for President Joe Biden.

Diet rich in fatty fish good for cognitive function

Dear Doctors: Our grandfather is having memory problems, and my mom is trying to get him to eat more fish. I know fish is called "brain food," but my mom says she has heard on the news that fish keeps you from getting dementia. Is this true?

Parent wants adult daughter to forget about the past

DEAR HARRIETTE: My grown daughter keeps bringing up the fact that I wasn't in her life as a child. This is really frustrating to me because I'm here now, and when I wasn't there, my parents were.

And now, we watch

One of them wants to be everyone's friend; the other is emerging as no one's.And yet: One yearns for a romantic past of domestic accord and accommodation; the other yearns for a past of superpower supremacy.One of them cannot bury his impulse to reach out and hug; the other cannot suppress his...

How to own the future

Both national parties represent broad coalitions of wide-ranging interests, otherwise they couldn't win elections in such a vast and diverse country.