On trying to help a young crack addict with a baby, supervised drug overdose centers, and the line between compassion and enabling

Remembering Marty Roberts, who played at Los Angeles's Dresden Room for nearly forty years as part of the husband-and-wife lounge act Marty & Elayne, and who died on January 13.

Where omicron plummets, COVID-19 restrictions on our pandemic-damaged children need to end. Let's throw 'em a big party!

My dad, Dr. J, a woman jumping from an apartment building and a Bloomingdale's lingerie catalog. Hey, it was the 70s

Coco Welch, about to turn the big 7 and daughter of MattWelch, asks, "Are you a baby murderer?" (And yeah, maybe it was Tomagatchi; so sue me)

Seven years ago today, Islamic gunmen killed 14 people in the offices of the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo. The terrible attack on that brave publication, Matt Welch wrote on that day, was also an indictment of the rest of our free-speech cowardice

As awful as things are, Trump is not Milošević, Republicans are not unified behind him, Stacey Abrams is not a hero, and every day is not January 6.

Matt Welch regrets to inform you that Joe Biden has made another COVID speech

Exasperated by scare tactics practiced by journalists like the Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan ("That American democracy is teetering is unquestionable. Jan. 6 is every day now"), Nancy Rommelmann recalls her late friend Cathy Seipp's intolerance for editorial hysterics, and suggests the responsible thing for the media to keep calm and carry on

New NYC Mayor Eric Adams quashes a micro-rebellion among some teachers union members, but school closures Monday hit a record for 2021-22.