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Baseball’s pitch clocks

There are but a few things that gain unanimous approval in America these days.Several of those brand-new Major League Baseball changes seem to be very close to getting across-the-board raves.(When I write 鈥渁cross-the-board raves,鈥 I鈥檓 saying I haven鈥檛 seen anybody claim they honestly ...

The problem of men in black robes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to the prescription drug mifepristone in 2000. Last week, 23 years and five presidential administrators later, a federal judge in Texas placed a preliminary hold on the use of mifepristone, one drug in a two-drug combination used to ...

What goes around鈥

Last week, the lead-up to Donald Trump鈥檚 New York arraignment may have caused a record for breathless speculation.A squadron of reporters followed Trump鈥檚 motorcade out of Mar-a-Lago as it wound its way to Palm Beach International Airport.Reporters and anchors around the planet engaged in ...

In defense of a rules-based world

Robert Kagan鈥檚 鈥渓esson for all time鈥 is that peace 鈥 as in the absence of war among nations 鈥 is most often squandered when threats to the peace 鈥渁re not obvious and the need to do something is not obvious.鈥漈his, it seems obvious to say, makes keeping the peace extremely ...

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

More children were murdered in their school last week.Covenant School, Nashville, Tennessee 鈥 6 dead, 1 injured.That was followed by the usual flood of tearful 鈥渢houghts and prayers;鈥 feverish speculation about who the culprit might be; more tragic pictures of schoolchildren getting ...

Echoes of the miners’ Mitchell Day

Ed Yankovich has trouble remembering the last big Mitchell Day celebration. Was it five years ago, 10 years ago? Yankovich, former president of the United Mine Workers district headquartered in Uniontown, was unable to pin it down.鈥淚t was somewhere in that period of time,鈥 he said the other ...