As 2025 comes to an end, many of us will begin thinking about our new year’s resolutions. Some will pledge to lose weight, while others will strive to spend more time with family or find a better job.

I am leaving behind the bad energy of 2025’s betting column and bringing in good vibes for the New Year. I took a one-week hiatus related to a Christmas vacation, but in Week 16, I went 3-2. On the ...

The season of giving – that beautiful stretch of days from Thanksgiving to Hanukkah to Christmas to Kwanzaa – has concluded. New Year's Eve, a day of "last-minute" contributions, has passed. We are in ...

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It’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Or as writer Jonathan Edward Durham calls it, “Full Goblin Mode.” It’s a stretch when time ceases to have meaning… when you have no idea if it’s Monday ...

“What’s past is prologue” wrote William Shakespeare in “The Tempest,” a thought profound enough to be engraved on the National Archives building in Washington. As America prepares to celebrate its ...

Editor’s Note: Just weeks before the Eaton fire, Kara-Lisa Jones Mitchell moved back in with her mom and dad after some personal struggles. But in December, her mom passed away. Days later, the Eaton ...

As 2025 comes to a close and we look to brighter days ahead, I find myself thinking about wishes. Not the grand kind you’d buy if you had billions of dollars — the quiet type that grows in the chest, ...

The defining political image for me of the year just ended is Narendra Modi striding into BJP headquarters after the Bihar victory, smiling triumphantly and waving a Bihari scarf over his head. What ...

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