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When one turns fifty, as I recently did, one’s sense of mortality inches insidiously closer. As for me, I crossed this symbolic age threshold determined to embrace, rather than resist, life’s unforgiving lesson that all things eventually die.

While savoring all that the present has to offer, I simultaneously regard the future (from a rapidly shrinking distance) as an inevitable series

The Taliban in this northern province allows girls to attend school. It doesn’t execute soldiers or police. Its fighters are not Pashtun, the main ethnic group that bred and fueled the insurgency. Some members are even former mujahideen, or freedom fighters, who once despised the Taliban and fought against its uprising.

The president’s campus intervention ignores the bigger threat of anti-Semitism and threatens speech.

Last year, anti-Semitic attacks killed more Jews around the globe than in any year in decades. Worshipers were gunned down during Saturday services at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. Attackers took the lives of a Jewish college student in California and a Holocaust survivor in

The Democratic base is in an uproar over President Obamas proposed strikes against Syria but neither Vice President Biden nor Hillary Clinton can politely distance themselves from the presidents policies.