Congratulations to Hamas, which this week achieved a result almost unheard of in recent media history — getting the Wall Street Journal and New York Times to cover a story about Gaza in almost identical ways.Within a day of hollowly denouncing the beheading...

It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and furySignifying nothing.— Macbeth, Act V, Scene VThe metropolitan St. Louis region, covering all or part of 16 counties and the City of St. Louis, sprawls over about 9,000 square miles.If you can believe...

“Poverty is in the community, guns are in, drugs are in, jobs are out. Banks are bailed out without meaningful community reinvestment. Too many people have no stake in the culture.”That’s a quote from the Rev. Jesse Jackson that appeared in a story...

Does the world care about religious persecution? Sometimes we wonder.While much of the attention of the world’s media has been riveted to the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza, the self-designated Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) has renewed...

Everyone wants an easy narrative to the Israel-Gaza conflict, one that will provide context from the past to explain the present and predict the future.Dream on.What we can offer instead is a clear, unequivocal position about what we think Israel should...

• Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan likens Israel’s actions against Gaza to the Holocaust and condones anti-Semitic propaganda in his effort to win re-election.• Thousands of protesters in major European cities condemn Israel for recent...

The five male justices on the United States Supreme Court who provided the majority in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby seriously impaired women’s health, created bad law, and, as we found out just three days later, didn’t even mean what they said.The decision...

If we are to heal this nation, last Wednesday’s killing must rid us, once and for all, of the complacent illusion that we enjoy a distinctive moral superiority over our neighbors.— “A Sobering Moment for Complacent Israel,” David Horovitz, Times...

As Israel wrestles with the horrific abduction and death of three young hitchhikers, the broader Middle East threatens to become undone in more ways than one.Not only will the Israeli government undoubtedly continue to retaliate against what it has contended...

The delegates to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly, by a 310-303 vote, on Friday approved a resolution to divest $21 million in Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions equity to protest the companies’ actions in the Palestinian...

American Jews have both contributed to and benefitted mightily from public education and collective bargaining. So no matter your opinion about the judge’s decision in Vergara v. California – the recent case striking down teacher tenure and seniority...

Sometimes, geopolitical outcomes are better measured by the avoidance of further pain than the prospect of some fantasized ideal. That may well be the case right now in the Middle East.Two deeply flawed elections have taken place in recent days: Syrian...