Defense articles

  • In defense of helicopter parents: Why we're right to be anxious

    This column is the latest in a series on parenting children in the final years of high school, “Emptying the Nest.” Read the previous installment, about relearning how to be alone at home, here. I recently saw a headline in the New York Times that I thought was the answer to my prayers: “Anxious Parents Are the Ones Who Need Help.” Yes, please, I thought, hoping to find acknowledgment of all the very real forces that can turn any parent into an anxious mess. Things like school shootings,...
  • Hicks offers a glimmer of hope for Trump's defense

    The longtime Trump aide provided some ammunition to both the prosecution and the defense in the hush money trial.
  • Revealing Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative Debates

    When former President Ronald Reagan embraced the idea of a missile defense system, he called it the Strategic Defense Initiative. While it ended up being a great success, it was initially attacked by the Democrats, who nicknamed SDI “Star Wars.” “They mocked him, they tried to humiliate him,” Mark Levin explains.“We didn’t have that technology 40-some years ago, and so the reprobates who only think about now, now, now, they said it couldn’t be done,” Levin continues. “During the budget processes...