On June 11th, the Pulitzer Prize Board will announce this year’s winners of the Pulitzer Prize. If the board truly wanted to honor “excellence in journalism and the arts,” however, it would do better by revoking a prize instead. In 2003, the Pulitzer Prize Board upheld Walter Duranty’s 1932 Pulitzer…

It wasn’t too long ago when reading the morning newspaper was a regular part of American life. Even as a card-carrying member of Generation Z, I remember having to run down the driveway each Sunday morning to bring inside the weekend paper for my parents before running off outside. Sometime…

Just a short walk from Bunker Hill lies a small memorial dedicated to the patriots of that fateful fight. “Dulce et decorum est pro patria morir,” reads the plaque, sharing its bronzed face with some of the names of Massachusetts’ perished. Sweet and beautiful it is to die for your…

U.S. troops have long been withdrawing from Europe. From a peak of around 2 million servicemembers during WWII to a Cold War high of 400,000, U.S. troop levels in Europe today have dropped to around 74,000. …

Sometime last year, I attended a naturalization ceremony for a friend of mine. He is an Afghani who translated for the U.S. Army during the war in his home country. Because of his honorable-yet-risky work, he was able to immigrate to the U.S. with a green card. He was one…