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Independence Day is my personal favorite holiday of the year, the day we celebrate our freedom from tyranny and oppression and the basic and self-evident right of American citizens to live free. That isn’t the case in most other places in the world. Ronald Reagan put it best in his …

Shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin was fingered for supplying the missiles that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, President Obama said, “(the) costs for Russia’s behavior will only continue to increase.” The Russian president probably felt the same way about this White House threat as he did about February’s …

Over the past several months, tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors — almost all of them from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, or Mexico — have been detained at our southern border while crossing illegally into the United States. A large percentage have been found in the Rio Grande Valley region …

Before I had kids, I thought my perfect family would be two boys and a girl. I pictured my daughter and I having the close relationship I share with my mother. We would go shopping, get manicures, and whisper secrets. She would borrow my clothes and I’d tell her and …

In her 1985 speech after receiving the Best Actress Oscar for her role in “Places in the Heart,” actress Sally Field famously gushed, “You like me; you really, really like me.” The latest in a long history of surveys examining the public’s level of trust in the news media might …

Every year, something miraculous happens in December in America — the Army-Navy football game. It is one of the most fabled and long-standing rivalries in American athletics. Navy Midshipmen and Army Cadets spend their entire four years of college saying, “Beat Army” or “Beat Navy” dozens of times a day. …

Sixteen months before Thomas Jefferson crafted the powerful words that would become our Declaration of Independence, he sat quietly in Richmond’s St. John’s Church, absorbing the oratory of Patrick Henry. Henry’s call, “Give me liberty or give me death,” ignited a revolutionary spirit that Jefferson would later capture on parchment. …

Sadness is an emotion we often associate with breakups, job loss, or death. But it doesn’t only appear when catastrophe strikes. As psychotherapists and parent educators, we know sadness is also a natural part of parenting—especially during the back-to-school season. Just last week, a colleague shared a conversation they had …

Unless you have been living on another planet, you know there’s a royal wedding about to happen. The world is waiting for the moment when the bride steps out of her carriage at Westminster Abbey on her way to wed her prince. I can’t help but be drawn to such …

It was a regular evening. It was 8:30pm and my husband and I were in bed, lying in our king-sized bed like the number 11. He was reading his paper. I was reading my book. When he tried to share an interesting tidbit, I grunted. The only difference was that …