Opinion

The Presidential Fecklessness Weakens National Security

This letter was addressed and sent to congressman Jack Bergman on Sept. 7 Mr. Trump has been consistently antagonistic towards military service. While the Vietnam War raged, many young men avoided the draft by going to Canada. The president avoided the draft using a medical deferment by claiming bone spurs. Years later, the president’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, asked the president for medical documentation relating to his bone spurs. President Trump didn’t give him any and said, “You think I'm stupid? I wasn't going to Vietnam.” Retired four-star Marine General John ...

Almanac for Sept. 14, 2026

Today is Monday, Sept. 14, the 257th day of 2026. There are 108 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 14, 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him, becoming the youngest-ever U.S. president at age 42. Also on this date: In 1847, during the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City. In 1861, the first naval engagement since the start of the Civil War took place as the USS Colorado attacked and ...

September 11 Seems Like Yesterday in New York City

Smoke still rose from the ruins of the World Trade Center, and the smell of nearly 2,000 deaths lingered miles uptown. A reporter asked New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani whether he worried that the city's Muslim neighborhoods would be attacked in revenge for that Islamist-inspired atrocity. ...

Editorial cartoon for Sept. 12, 2026

Almanac for Sept. 12, 2026

Today is Saturday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2026. There are 110 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system. Also on this date: In 1857, the S.S. Central America (also known as the "Ship of Gold") sank off the coast of South Carolina after sailing into a hurricane in one of the worst maritime disasters in American history; 425 people were killed and thousands of pounds of gold sank with the ship to the bottom of the ocean. In 1940, the Lascaux cave ...

Haven't forgotten

I've heard people reflect on where they were when JFK got shot, when Princess Di died, when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank... I'm a millennial. I remember the day the towers fell. In 2001, I was a student at Melvin H. Kreps Middle School in East Windsor, New Jersey. Mid-morning on Sept. 11, my classmates and I filed into our sixth-grade English class and took our seats to find our teacher in a state of distress. She was tearful, struggling to speak, and we were trying to find out what was going on. She managed to choke out something about the Twin Towers and a plane. I had no idea what ...