The tone was set by Franklin Graham’s invocation. Preachers are a fixture at presidential inaugurations, but until now they’ve confined their words to asking the Almighty to bless the new president and his family and to guide the nation to goodness and mercy. The prophets were popular ...

This year’s National Day of Racial Healing, sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, emphasized the importance of children growing up in supportive communities that nurture their talents and stimulate their desire to learn in school. In a short video presentation, the foundation’s ...

Oil and gas production in the United States is hitting record highs, easily outpacing consumption growth and fueling an export boom that in 2020 achieved the country’s first trade surplus in energy since at least the 1950s. Renewable energy generation has also expanded at a healthy clip, more ...

The American press corps covers Republican presidential administrations very differently from Democratic presidential administrations and covers Donald Trump’s administration differently from everything. To the press, Donald Trump is a bad man — a would-be authoritarian tyrant. Therefore, ...

Donald Trump won the whole Monopoly game. He never went directly to jail and always passed go. Timid Merrick Garland, the attorney general, was no match and didn’t even buy a railroad. The Big Tech money boys were literally behind Trump, in obsequious unity as he was sworn in as president ...

Donald Trump stood at the center of American politics — in both senses — when he was inaugurated in the U.S. Capitol on Monday afternoon. Pretty much everything of import in national affairs will revolve around Trump for the foreseeable future, and he’s managed, in many respects, to ...