In his Saturday letter to the editor (“Stolen valor”), John Boron, a retired U.S. Air Force major, suggests that Donald Trump could be awarded a Purple Heart in recognition of the ear injury he ...

Editor: I have long contended that America wouldn’t be saved from authoritarian collapse by itself — especially not while oligarchs buy elections and gut our government’s power to protect its people.

If you mix together red, white and blue, you will end up with some mixture of purple. I consider myself a fiscally-conservative, socially-liberal voter. If that is philosophically and realistically ...