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I could never truly understand the Vietnam War. It was too far away from my memorable history — until I married my wife.

I looked into her little mahogany-drenched eyes and said, "Leilani, your hair is perfect just the way it is. The color, texture, length, volume, are exactly how God intended."

To dismiss the Vietnam War as a total failure for the United States or a warning against any intervention may prevent us from seeing solutions to today's problems.

Most of us recall when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, but in the American post-war narrative, many recently retired troops have become marginalized by our government.

Since my diagnosis with autism in 2015 at age 30, a bolder, more outspoken side of myself has emerged.

From the Tony Auth archives an excerpt from the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist's 2005 interview with the Library of Congress.

Even though Americans dismissed the English king in 1776, they still, 250 years later, seem to have a residual affection for — and curiosity about — the British royals.

There has been renewed attention to racial profiling and the epidemic of police brutality. This personal account of racial profiling has become one of many for me.

The story of gentrification is not unique to Philadelphia, but I'm concerned with the current tone of discussion around development.

A volunteer-only army outsources foreign wars to the poor and working class — one of the worst legacies of Vietnam, which was also fought mostly by less-privileged Americans.

Like Americans who demonstrated against the Vietnam War in the late '60s, today's protesters know that it takes more than just one disruption to get the country and its electe