Editor: Most Americans probably never heard of Martin Niemöller. Niemöller was a Lutheran pastor who was a citizen of Germany before, during, and after World War II. Initially he supported the ...

Your Jan. 15 editorial (“MLK’s famous dream remains inspirational, timely”) was excellent. It was a great history lesson reminding your readers of the challenges of public school integration in the ...

Vietnamese American women hold flags as they attend the 50th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the Fall of Saigon, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The Honolulu ...

Are the lessons from Iraq so quickly forgotten? In that war, overconfidence in U.S. technological superiority and arrogance at the beginning of the war — remember Don Rumsfeld’s gleeful “shock and awe ...

As a young boy, I spent a fair amount of time in the wilds of Indiana in the company of older men. I was in awe of their experiences, but I had my suspicions that some of their stories stretched the ...

In requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in schools, what moral lessons do proponents of House Bill 1145 want students to learn? Let’s start with the last commandment as stated in Exodus: “You ...

A best-selling book in 1986 by author and minister Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” was a collection of short essays that showed how the lessons we were taught in ...

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