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"Man's chief superiority over animals is his power of speech; if he abuses it, he is no higher than they."

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Seriously Funny
The Elephant in The Kids' Room
By Mordechai Schiller

Our columnist take us to the intersection of language and levity. Hold on to your side as you cross

Reality Check
How the U.S. can prepare for the coming Gaza war
By Daniel Shapiro

Once we acknowledge who is at fault and how it will start, we can move forward

It Could Happen To You
Following doctors' ever-changing orders only made me -- a former runner, swimmer and hiker -- sicker. Then I found out why
By Melissa Banigan

I had headaches, fatigue, depression and joint pain. It sure didn't feel like normal aging

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Dorie Greenspan

Cookie bakers, here's your secret weapon (4-made-from-one-dough cookie reipes)

Passionate Parenting
5 phrases to eliminate from your parenting vocabulary
By Lyndsi Frandsen

We regularly teach our children how to respond in certain social situations. Our hope is those responses will eventually become habit. But sometimes we parents give a "parrot" response without even realizing it

Consumer Intelligence
Surprising Benefits of Amazon Prime
By Bob Niedt

What are you really getting with your $99-a-year Amazon Prime membership? A lot more than you're probably using

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• Chip Bok

• John Darkow

• Bob Gorrell

• Walt Handelsman

• Gary McCoy

• Steve Sack

• Scott Stantis

• Dana Summers

• Michael Ramirez

Marilyn Penn: Fun With Flags

Peter Brookes: Russia not out to improve relations

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On this day in . . .

• 1812, President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom

• 1814, Napoleon abdicates for the first time

• 1818, Congress decided the flag of the United States would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union

• 1841, William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served

• 1865, during the American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital

• 1896, the Yukon gold rush began with the announcement of a strike in the Northwest Territory of Canada

• 1902, British financier Cecil Rhodes left $10 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University

• 1905, in India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra valley, kills 20,000, and destroys most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala

• 1945, during World War II, U.S. troops on Okinawa encountered the first significant resistance from Japanese forces

• 1949, 12 nations, including the United States, signed the North Atlantic Treaty

• 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.

• 1973, the World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated

• 1975, Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico

• 1983, the space shuttle Challenger roared into orbit on its maiden voyage

• 1984, President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons

• 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ended a two-day summit in Canada, with a larger than expected U.S. aid pledge of $1.62 billion

• 1996, President Clinton signed legislation severing the link between crop prices and government subsidies. ALSO: The former general manager of Daiwa Bank's New York branch pleaded guilty to aiding a $1.1 billion cover-up

• 2000, the Nasdaq composite index plunged 574 points (more than 13 percent) but then rose 500 points in one of the wildest days ever on Wall Street

• 2001, Chinese President Jiang Zemin demanded the United States apologize for the collision between a U.S. Navy spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet; the Bush administration offered a chorus of regrets, but no apology. ALSO: Hideo Nomo became the fourth pitcher in major league history to throw a no-hitter in both leagues with Boston's 3-0 victory over Baltimore

• 2002, President George W. Bush dismissed Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, as a failed leader who had "betrayed the hopes of his people"

• 2003, coalition forces encircled Baghdad and secured Saddam International Airport in overnight fighting

• 2005, the Supreme Court ruled creditors could not seize the Individual Retirement Accounts of bankrupt people

• 2006, the Iraq tribunal announced new criminal charges against Saddam Hussein and six others, accusing them of genocide and crimes against humanity stemming from a 1980s crackdown against Kurds

• 2007, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad despite White House objections. ALSO: Radio host Don Imus outraged some listeners by jocularly describing the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy headed hos." (Despite an apology, Imus was fired by CBS Radio and cable network MSNBC; he was hired elsewhere by year's end.)

• 2011, yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up on trying avowed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators in civilian federal courts and said it would prosecute them instead before military commissions. AND: Barack Obama launched his bid for re-election at a time his approval ratings had hit a low of 41 percent

• 2013, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines similar to the ones used by the young man who'd gunned down 20 children and six educators in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre

• 2016, the so-called Panama Papers, an unprecedented leak of millions of documents, revealed that politicians, prominent world leaders, and celebrities hid millions in secret offshore tax shelters to skirt tax laws

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Glenn Reynolds: The suicide of expertise

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The Passing Parade

Argus Hamilton's: The News in Zingers!

Leonid Bershidsky: Tech underestimates future demand for privacy

• The $16 million battle over mermaid-tail blankets

Mary Vought: I worked for Mike Pence, and being a woman never held me back

Jeff Jacoby: Thirty years of 'varsity academics'

Emma Brown: Lawyer who highlighted Hillary's role in defending rape suspect tapped for key federal civil rights post

Ed O'Keefe: Home stretch for Supreme Court nominee could forever alter the Senate

Ed Rogers: Trump White House be granted an active RNC

Debra J. Saunders: Neil Gorsuch Must Be a Bad Man

David Filipov: A near-no show on Red Square highlights problems of Russia’s protest movement

Matea Gold & Robert Barnes: Growing array of pro-Trump groups could train crosshairs on GOP lawmakers

Ramesh Ponnuru: Trump, Trumpism and the conservatives' challenge

James Hohmann: How President Trump's threats against the Freedom Caucus may backfire

Bruce Bialosky: Was Trump Wrong or Is Obama Guilty?

George Will: Baseball numbers aren't difficult. But this quiz might be

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore