“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

The Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress has just produced an important new study titled “The Demise of the Happy Two-Parent Home.”

In these days of discontent and destruction, hate and harangue, we could really use Roy Rogers. And Trigger, his Golden Palomino. Dale Evans and Bullet the Wonder Dog. Not to mention the Sons of the Pioneers. I believe if we could get this group back, we could find our kinder and gentler selves.

Brady, my 13-pound whopper Yorkie, and I usually walk the quiet streets of St. Simons Island early in the morning. Having done this for several years, it is rare for new things to catch our attention. Beer cans, food wrappers, trash, other familiar walkers and a single tennis shoe (we never …

2020 continues to be the year of the Great Suck. The world and Georgia lost two Civil Rights giants within hours of each nearing a week ago, and this week, we lost another leader, and at least to me, a good friend.

Not everyone is suffering job loss, income declines and financial devastation from the coronavirus pandemic. Some people are looking to get rich off the tragedy. Trial lawyers see COVID-19 casualties and images of asbestos and tobacco lawsuits dancing in their heads. They are drooling over t…

A taxpayer-funded agency plans to host children at its public facilities each day from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. They’ll gather in groups, led by a licensed adult, and follow an established learning schedule. During breaks, they’ll even be able to go outside for recess.

There is a real possibility that, this coming week, Joe Biden will be selecting the 47th president of the United States.

A wave of hasty firings is sweeping across the country, driven by demands from what some call the “cancel culture.” The New York Times editorial page editor James Bennett ran an op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., that displeased the paper’s readers and some colleagues, so he lost his job. T…

A legal scholar tested Jesus and asked simply, “Who is my neighbor?”

This week, American astronauts returned to earth. Their trip to the space station was the first manned launch from the U.S. in 10 years.

Decent Americans who are feeling perplexed today shouldn’t be ashamed about it. There is good reason to be perplexed.

With the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse under nightly siege from violent radicals, and Portland’s police hard-pressed to protect it, President Trump sent in federal agents to secure the building.

So far in my short series of columns on racial discrimination in the labor market, we have discussed that studies show that discrimination exists and is significant, and that discrimination based on any non-market characteristic, regardless of the reason for that discrimination, leads to ine…

Among the skills and talents, I learned later in life is the importance of constantly planting seeds. You do not need to be a farmer, nor even a gardener, though I have developed some abilities towards the latter over the past decade.

There is no police power in the federal Constitution. The police power is left to the states. To the extent the president can send federal officers into Portland, Oregon, and other cities, it should be to protect federal property.

How great a burden can even an unrivaled superpower carry before it buckles and breaks? We may be about to find out.

President Donald Trump announced at the White House his unequivocal commitment to getting America’s schools back open.

I could tell by the way the phone jumped straight up when it rang who was on the line. It could be none other than Skeeter Skates, owner of Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair, located in Ryo, Georgia. Yes, phones jump where Skeeter is involved. I do, too.

This summer, I have been team teaching a global issues class on COVID-19 with a multidisciplinary team of faculty at the College of Coastal Georgia. We have, along with our students, been exploring the COVID-19 pandemic from every angle with professors from across the College’s disciplines: …

If it hasn’t already been clear in the past several weeks, we are in this mess for the long haul. This pandemic, in multiple hot spots and red zones across the United States is about to get worse before it gets better. More testing or false positives alone don’t fill hospital beds, ICUs or n…

Remember the dress? Or rather, #TheDress? A picture of it appeared on the internet one day, and suddenly people were arguing over whether it was blue and black, or white and gold.

Is the U.S., preoccupied with a pandemic and a depression that medical crisis created, prepared for a collision with China over Beijing’s claims to the rocks, reefs and resources of the South China Sea?

In February and early March, the experts on television, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the surgeon general and others were adamant that only sick people need to wear masks. It would do the public no good to have a run on masks, and if they did, first respo…

The debate now surrounding the Emancipation Monument that stands in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., is a critical discussion in which I believe all Americans of goodwill and those who want racial harmony should engage.

Has it really have been 24 years since the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games? Sunday will mark 8,766 days since that dramatic night when Muhammed Ali, hands shaking with palsy, lit the cauldron signifying the beginning of 17 days of Olympic competition and the culmination of years of hard work.

The pandemic has taken the U.S. economy on a bad ride.

“There is nothing in the data that suggests kids being in schools is in any way dangerous,” said U.S. Department of Education (DOE) Secretary Betsy DeVos during a recent interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News.

On July 22, 1988, after the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, the party nominee, Gov. Michael Dukakis, enjoyed a 17-point lead over Vice President George W. Bush.