Opinion

Books are my sweet spot.

How many more Jews must die before the world wakes up and does something about it? Maybe that’s the problem: the world doesn’t want to wake up as too many people are fine with hating Jews.

In the spirit of the season, I’m devoting this week’s column to good news. Despite the dark times we think we live in, there’s a lot to buoy our spirits.

The reason for Christmas is easy to explain, but difficult for many to understand.

Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres.

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece.

Nothing President Donald Trump is pushing in his war on drugs would have saved Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner.

The meaning of the birth of Jesus has evolved for me over the years.

In the Judeo-Christian world, December is a big month.

Americans, in turn, are worried that Europe is not just stagnating but is on a trajectory of permanent decline -- with dire consequences for the entire Western world.

Tim Keller has won another term as mayor of Albuquerque, the first to be elected to a third term in our city’s history.

The most immediate way that New Mexico lawmakers can expand access to health care is by joining all the interstate compacts for health care workers, which would make it easier for health care professionals who are licensed in other states to care for patients here in New Mexico, including via telehealth.