By Bob Gaydos
Today, the war to preserve American freedom and democracy is being fought right here at home. Fortunately, millions of Americans stand on the side of what’s right. Many still remember how we felt as a unified nation in the wake of the attacks 22 years ago.

By Bob Gaydos
There remain more questions than answers about Mitch McConnell’s health, a World Cup soccer kiss and whatever Vivek Ramaswamy is trying to prove.

By Bob Gaydos
Watching the feeding is only half the fascination. What hummingbirds go through every year just to get to our backyard and all the other welcoming feeding places in the Eastern U.S. is an epic tale.

By Bob Gaydos
When three major stories — sports, politics, foreign intrigue— vie for front page treatment, what’s an editor to do?

By Bob Gaydos
Occasionally, it’s good to look around at life and discover some amazing things, about watermelon, numbers and horses, for instance. Be present.

By Bob Gaydos
While Donald Trump kept complaining that authorities were trying to shut him up, as if that were possible, police authorities in Kansas actually shut a newspaper down, briefly. The First Amendment was in the news.

By Bob Gaydos
It was a week in which Donald Trump got indicted again, Mike Pence found his voice, NASA found Voyager, which it had lost in space, a Yankee pitcher lost his cool in the clubhouse and got sent to rehab and Sen. Tommy Tuberville lost a political skirmish when Joe Biden vetoed a bid to move Space Force HQ from Colorado to Alabama. By the way, that’s three indictments for Trump and counting.

By Bob Gaydos
A candid look at today’s Republican candidates based on a candid look at the field 12 years ago. A salute to my late colleague and lifelong Republican, Barbara Bedell. Spoiler: She didn’t even like Romney.

By Bob Gaydos
In a world of TikTok and streaming consciousness, there is still room for symmetry, especially in baseball and music.

By Bob Gaydos
Aretha Franklin’s scribbled will was ruled valid, aspertame was declared possibly cancer-causing but safe, actors joined writers on the picket line for more money and less AI and India figured, what the heck, let’s send a rocket to the moon. The week that was.