I grew up playing all kinds of quirky games to pass the time on family road trips. One that was almost certainly unique to our

Sometimes we lose. We lose loved ones. We lose jobs. We lose health. We lose dreams. We lose the religious tradition, denomination, or church we

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I’ve essentially quit Twitter/X, and my life is better for it. I joined the platform in 2008 as a young journalist hoping to gather sources,

I spent the morning at Dachau Concentration Camp memorial site, just outside Munich. I wandered the grounds and exhibitions: the roll call area, barracks, infirmary,

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In January. Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell posted a blog in this space called Joe Biden’s Age, arguing that Biden’s age helped make him trustworthy. The months since