Opinion

Sometimes the news cycle delivers stories that are so unserious they feel like a palate cleanser. Not exactly heartwarming, not exactly earth-shattering — just one of those moments that makes

Discipline, Optimism, and a Season to RememberAt the U.S. Naval Academy, optimism is cultivated with purpose and discipline. This season, the Navy Midshipmen men’s basketball team has transformed that discipline

This year’s Super Bowl halftime conversation felt less like a cultural moment and more like a cultural tug-of-war. On one screen, the NFL’s headline act featuring Bad Bunny delivered exactly

A Quiet but Consequential Shift Barely two weeks before Christmas, Illinois quietly crossed another moral Rubicon. On December 12, it became the 12th state, alongside Washington, D.C., to legalize physician-assisted

Some Heroes Don’t Wear Capes — They Wear Cold-Water Rescue SuitsIn a week when headlines seem determined to compete for the title of “Most Stressful Thing You’ll Read Before Lunch,”

What is it about media coverage of midterm elections? Do they really need to behave as though very predictable political outcomes somehow constitute results that are dramatic and historic, ones

Marooned in Iowa, Guided by a Song The 2016 Iowa Caucus was supposed to be another stop on the campaign trail. Late nights, early mornings, borrowed phone chargers, caffeine-fueled interviews

What has long been considered traditional journalism no longer exists.Much of this death spiral has been self-inflicted, but surely not all of it. The combination of changing technology and the

Once again, America gathered in the cold, squinted toward a hole in the ground, and waited for a rodent to tell us how much longer we’re allowed to complain. This

The human-psyche has a terrible track record of attaching ambiguous titles of hero, victim, villain, and, of course, martyr. Our Internet-era only exploits this inherent flaw. This is not political