Opinion & Essay

William Faulkner, the bard of segregated Mississippi, once wrote: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

While I should be counting my blessings, I can’t stop thinking of 15-year-old Kidron Roberts, who was charged with killing a Camden High School freshman several days ago.

We have to stop killing each other. 

Do you remember Art Linkletter? I do. I came to this country more than 60 years ago, in the good old days of America, days that ...

There's an old saying, attributed to nobody in particular, that Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

The musical, in a sterling production, does justice to Alice Walker's book.

The ghost of John Barrymore is the liveliest part of the play, and surely of this production.

Floyd Abrams, one of our foremost First Amendment lawyers, told me during the summer that the free and independent American press is unde ...

As we celebrate yet another Veteran’s Day, I’m left to consider all the scandals that have beset America’s veterans in recent years ...

When I wrote here last Wednesday that Donald Trump, confronted with a Democratic House, would “behave like a cornered rat,” I ...

Nora, who walks out the door at the end of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece, is back.

Thanksgiving is fast approaching, setting the scene for the end-of-the-year spree of holidays. And among the traditions you can count on ...

Long before I learned about redlining, “white flight,” and mass incarceration, I wondered how spaces that housed the dead could look so much better than those for the living.

The war hero Achilles and his friend, Petroclus, consider their love and interdependence.