The Republican presidential primary process has successfully plumbed new depths of disgust in American politics. The parade of Neanderthals that keeps emerging from the back of the party’s cave to ...

It’s pretty clear by now that expressions of empathy and supplications for divine intervention are no more effective in ending the continual carnage of mass shootings in America than is wishing on a ...

Once upon a time I was a landlord. As a young landlord, I had little financial reserves and a modest income, so when my tenants skipped rent, I ate a lot of Ramen noodles and stretched out my bills.

Not being a man of faith affiliated with any church or religion may rule out the notion of my eternity, but it does afford a perspective on the here and now that is unclouded by ecclesiastical ...

The obsession with human sexuality and the concomitant consternation it arouses present curious contradictions. Sexuality is as natural to the human species as is hunger and thirst, and judging from ...

In his Nov. 29 commentary, Alcorn asserts that anyone who voted for President Donald Trump is “delusional or dissolute” — as in immoral, depraved, evil-minded. His rage has blinded his ability to see; ...

Russia’s Hitleresque invasion of Ukraine has galvanized much of the world, especially the Western world, which has been shocked out of its post-Cold War complacency. Wars of conquest, at least in ...

If greed is good, is greater greed even better? If so, for whom? Not the millions of people suffering in the current Great Recession. They and others are losing faith in the promise of American ...

Last month, another high-ranking Santa Barbara City College staffer was placed on administrative leave for saying something that was considered offensive by some segment of the school’s population.

It’s pretty clear by now that expressions of empathy and supplications for divine intervention are no more effective in ending the continual carnage of mass shootings in America than is wishing on a ...

There are those who argue that the underlying cause of the angst and anger that fuels America’s incendiary political tribalism is the tenuous finances and fading prospects of a large number of ...