Tom Purcell

Autumn's Beauty Can Restore The Better Angels of Our Nature Autumn has arrived - and it couldn't come soon enough. I love this time of year - ... Read More

Change Voting Age to 16? Try 80! San Francisco residents will vote on a measure in November to allow teenagers as young as 16 to vote ... Read More

I made it through the summer of COVID-19 - though I'm thankful that neither I nor any of my family have contracted the novel coronavirus. ... Read More

I hope we get it right. Data collection for the 2020 U.S. Census ends soon. This census, the 22nd in U.S. history, has faced its share ... Read More

Join COVID-19 Homebuying Rush, Develop Common Sense American home ownership is soaring, which is good for all of us., Home sales slowed during the early months ... Read More

Joe Biden reminded the world what grace looks like. Robert Trump, President Trump's younger brother, died Saturday. In response, Biden tweeted: "Mr. President, Jill and ... Read More

COVID-19 is getting old - particularly for employees who've been working from home for months. That's the finding of a Wall Street Journal article, "Companies ... Read More

A friend of mine can't for the life of him understand why some Americans are clamoring to replace capitalism with socialism. Born in Vietnam, he was ... Read More

I missed it again. So did the rest of America., July 1's unofficial International Joke Day came and went without fanfare. , That's regrettable, because ... Read More

Good grief: Apparently, America has yet to move past the anger phase regarding COVID-19. In 1969, you see, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross described five stages of grief: denial, ... Read More