Nearly every state has a citizen's arrest law allowing civilians to detain someone if they have witnessed a crime being committed. Some of these laws allow only felony suspects to be held until law enforcement arrives, while others also allow those suspected of "breach of peace" misdemeanors…

This is a particularly poignant Memorial Day weekend, coming shortly after the number of American coronavirus deaths exceeded the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War.

“Oh beautiful, for heroes proved

I had expected limited production from Missouri's 2020 annual session because of the several weeks lost from the extended spring break to avoid COVID-19 exposure.

In 2012, Annie Glenn and I were doing what we so often did, which was to sit side by side in a quiet place offstage, waiting for our extroverted husbands to finish speaking to a crowd.

On this date in 1942, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was still three days away from completing her 18-day voyage from the Coral Sea to the dry dock awaiting her at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Herds of goats abandoning their habitat in the Great Orme headland and wandering into the Welsh coastal town of Llandudno. Bobcats and ravens spotted in parts of Yosemite that just weeks ago were the province only of humans. A coyote appearing in the backyard of a suburban home in Westcheste…

Stacey Abrams has another distinction to add to her resume: She's among the most preposterous potential vice presidential candidates ever.

Are these people lying to us, or are they lying to themselves?

President Donald Trump hasn’t called on his presidential predecessors to help him. Trump has been more pugilist than partner with his predecessors, repeatedly spurning their advice.

Black politicians, civil rights leaders and their white liberal advocates have little or no interest in doing anything effective to deal with what's no less than an education crisis among black students. In city after city with large black populations, such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, …

As America reopens for business, you might expect Jeff Bezos, the richest man in America, and his Amazon corporation, one of the most profitable corporations in America, to set the corporate standard for how to protect the health of American workers.

The classified ad might read: “Looking for college-educated applicants who can handle serious on-the-job stress, constant public criticism and loss of co-workers by suicide. Must be skilled in handling firearms, life-and-death conflicts, domestic abuse suspects, the mentally ill and drug add…

For his critics, Dr. Anthony Fauci cemented his status as the Rasputin of public health with his Senate testimony the other day.

As of this writing, more than 80,000 Americans have contracted and died from the coronavirus. But how many have or will die from what some call "despair"?

A week ago Friday, former President Barack Obama spoke to approximately 3,000 members of the Obama Alumni Association. While the headline reads, “In leaked call, Obama describes Trump handling of virus as chaotic,” it was the former president's comments on the U.S. Department of Justice deci…

My annual order of wildflower seeds arrived in the mail, and I've never been so eager to start something new — something beautiful and immune to the virus taking so much away.

With 2020 hindsight, a decade from now, we will want to look back not in anger and anxiety, but in relief and recognition that we struggled past the present precipice and worked for a better world.

New York is the greatest city in the world. It also is uniquely suited to the spread of the coronavirus.

Eighteen-year-old Dameon Shepard was playing video games when the mob came to his door. Some were carrying guns.

Former Barack Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel, during a recent interview, reminded us of his 2008 financial crisis quotation, "Never allow a crisis to go to waste." The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a wonderful opportunity for those of us who want greater control over our lives. Sadly, too many…

No other nation has endured as much death from COVID-19 nor nearly as a high a death rate as has the United States.