Our styles were so different. But at heart, we were the same: fighters who go the distance. Which is why, ever since the announcement of her death last week, Tina Turner has been much on my mind. Every day since, I have said to my husband, “I miss Tina so…

“To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” With these words in 1790, in a letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, George Washington famously counseled a religious minority — and by extension all “Citizens of the United States of America” — on how to keep their newly-established…

Ukrainian children abducted by invading Russian soldiers, by the busloads, in abrogation of the rules of war and simple humanity. American children shot dead in their schools by crazies exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms, also to kill. …

If only the collective mind could stay collected and fix on the main point. Which main point is: While the West’s “rules-based international order,” early to act, now dithers and drags its feet about sending all necessary weaponry to Ukraine, so that Ukraine can defend itself in the genocidal war…

In the 1939 screwball comedy “Idiot’s Delight,” Harry Van (played by Clark Gable) and his troupe of dancers are on tour in Europe and trying to get to Geneva for their next engagement. But they are stopped at the border, which has just closed. Harry demands to know why. Asked…

What does it take to do combat with an authoritarian leader? What techniques does it take to maneuver in a closed system where the media are vicious mouthpieces of their authoritarian leader and prison is the price for free speech? …

Good news: Trauma is not a death sentence. It may be a diagnosis, but not necessarily a prognosis. Trauma can launch personal transformation, post-traumatic growth. This helpful and hopeful message is especially good to hear now, when “traumatic” is invoked as a descriptor for so much current experience, whether justifiably…

I know, I know, this is ridiculous, this should not be the case: Conventional wisdom tells us that, as we get older, life becomes a slog — an unhappy, lonely, increasingly pointless slog. …

I start with a leading question: Is Elon Musk’s disruptor “leadership” model any way to run a company, much less a country? Elon Musk may be an entrepreneurial genius: He is co-founder of the electronic payment firm PayPal; an early investor and CEO of the electric car company Tesla; and…