Cynthia Wachtell

Here is a modest proposal. Let's have private school students take the same standardized tests that public school students now take each year.

While we are at it, let's require private school teachers to be absent from their students' classrooms for the same number of days as...

In the film Saving Private Ryan an American mother sends her four sons off to World War II and very nearly loses them all. Perhaps, Ann Romney should make a date with Netflix this Mother's Day.

I won't touch the recent flap-up about whether she has ever worked a day...

Last week, I received an email message from the Ploughshares Fund, a nuclear disarmament advocacy foundation, asking, "What does Mother's Day Mean to You?" Suspecting that the correct answer was something other than a dozen roses and a box of chocolates, I read on:

Over the years, we've...

Recently I visited San Antonio, Texas for the first time. I even went to the Alamo. My taxi driver from the airport, a middle-aged fellow from Cyprus, warned me against it. He ranks the Alamo as the most disappointing tourist site in America and considers the historic standoff that took...

Next April, America will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. A few months later, in July, President Obama has promised to begin troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, signaling that war's long awaited end. And, of course, just weeks ago, on August 31, the President declared an...

Earlier this month I was in Alaska and could not resist the temptation to pay a visit to Wasilla, the home of the original Mama Grizzly.

I arrived on an overcast afternoon, and after watching the Wasilla Warriors practice football outside the high school, photographing a colorful "Guns and...