Donald Trump’s failure to heed early warnings about COVID-19 is a lot worse than an emperor without clothes. Months into the coronavirus pandemic, the president still lacks a cohesive plan to provide necessary medical supplies and national testing to battle America’s deadliest disease since …

The issue the government has when enforcing social distancing is that we live in a free country with a Constitution that guarantees those freedoms.

The yards had been mostly vacant on the street around the corner from our house, save for the tricycles, small bikes and other toddler transportation.

The field is set at six candidates for the July 14 election to pick a successor to Kirk Watson in Central Texas’ 14th District seat in the state Senate.

Considering the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in East Texas and across the state, it is understandable that some might blame Gov. Greg Abbott for pushing too quickly toward easing rules to slow the pandemic.

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott overruled cities and counties by saying churches could not be ordered closed, I agreed. The closure felt like a pure violation of the First Amendment.

Let us appreciate our freedom, reflect on our history and remember those who gallantly fought and died for each one of us. 

We Americans sure do love our freedom. Unfortunately, this includes the freedom to act like idiots. And lately, that particular freedom has been exercised enthusiastically by members of the anti-shutdown militia.

Their seasons — indeed, their athletic, academic and music careers — may be over, but the character Texas high school seniors have developed through their participation in education-based high school activities lives on, a benefit to their communities and the state.

Thank you, Americans. That hasn’t been said nearly enough over these awful past few months.

This column will go to press right after the Memorial Day weekend. I hope everybody had a happy, safe, and meaningful holiday.

As some pandemic doors are slowly opened, others are getting kicked in. Either way, individual choices are quickly replacing the weeks of government instructions about what and what not to do.

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.

Imagine, if you will, a World War II America where one-third of the nation did not see fascism as a threat — including a good portion of the nation’s leaders.

Class of 2020, you’re the best and brightest new players on the global stage, and us older folks are looking to you to lead us into a new future. Your whole lives led you to this, so don’t despair.

Some salon owners in Texas have been in the news recently because they reopened their businesses before Gov. Abbott's rules officially allowed them to do so. As a result, some were fined or imprisoned as outlaws or scofflaws.

A moment’s silence, please, for Krist Angielen Guzman, 35, a nurse in Chicago who vowed to “kick COVID’s butt.” Her maternity leave — third child — ended about the same time the enemy reached her city. When the president declared a national emergency, she armored up in goggles, gown and face…

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about fear. I’m not alone. For Americans, 2020 is the unofficial Year of Fear.

Those of us who lived during the World War II years can see huge differences in our society. Even as a child, I could see how my parents and other adults in their circle of friends and at church treated others. Of course, equal treatment of others not in our group or of our color still had a…

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it crystal clear just how much communities rely on their local hospitals — and how much we rely on you.

To mask, or not to mask, that is the question.

Rush Limbaugh single-handedly revived AM radio. In 1988, his syndicated talk show brought people back to a place they had left for the FM dial.

According to the Milken Institute, over 70 treatments for COVID-19 are already in clinical trials or progressing toward clinical trials. Several of the inventions behind this flurry of activity resulted from government-funded research in U.S. universities.

We have entered the endurance phase of this pandemic. We are slowly mastering this disease, but have not yet done so. And so we wait — and endure.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton continues his dogged campaign to keep most Texans from being able to vote by mail, rather than in person, because they fear catching the novel coronavirus.

The movie “Watermelon Man,” starring Godfrey Cambridge, is no “Casablanca” or “Citizen Kane.” It probably is not on any list of best movies. It would be surprising, in fact, if many of you have even heard of it.

In Washington and the media, the pandemic is, alas, being taken over by extremists. They demand we choose A or B, the virus or the economy, locking down or setting free. But while they rage and clash, the future will probably be won by Pandemic Pragmatists, who blend and balance both priorit…

Joe Biden’s weak and pathetic relationship with Latinos is all about geography.

In 1722, Daniel Defoe coined the word “soixantaine” to denote a period of 60 days isolation. It is a period of time half again as long as a quarantine, whose original meaning denoted a 40-day period.

I’ve worked in grocery stores since I was 20. The best part of my job has always been the people. You never know who you might talk to during the day: It could be someone who’s homeless, or someone with a million dollars in their bank account. Everyone has to buy food. Working here, you see …

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.”