Here’s a quick summary of the FBI’s week: It came out that the agency probably let a bad guy go and charged a good guy with a crime.

Most — if not all — of us have had an experience with bullying. Bullies torment and discriminate against anybody based on age, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, family status, national origin and any other personal characteristic that identifies a person as a unique and special human being.

Start thinking the unthinkable. We as a nation have to start talking about the prospects for nuclear war.

School is out in only a few weeks, so the time is now for those considering a summer job.

This last weekend of April displayed the very best and the very worst of Washington. The worst is the part most of the country sees most of the time in the capital: the triumph of money and power.

I wonder why, in a time when we search for information and build knowledge in so many aspects of our complicated lives, there is so much resistance to seeking, or providing, basic information about the nature of the food we eat?

Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that “a great man is one sentence.” Presidents, in particular. The most common “one sentence” for George W. Bush (whose legacy is being reassessed as his presidential library opens) is: “He kept us safe.”

A gun show was held in the area recently, and it was packed.

In the week since modest gun control died in the Senate, those of us who don’t think guns make the country safer have been inclined to blame a few cowardly senators whose votes could have shifted the outcome.