Lee Habeeb

A family's miserable road trip while on summer vacation in 1951 generated an unheard-of idea: a chain of nationwide hotels run as franchises.

Failure is nature's way of teaching us lessons we can't learn any other way. And protecting our kids—and our citizens—from life's risks isn't possible.

After the Revolution, the American people, it was assumed, would replace one King George with another. But the Continental Army's commander had other ideas.

"Georgia on My Mind" lingered for decades in Hoagy Carmichael's back catalog, never a hit. Then Ray Charles decided to record it.

The nation's largest social studies organization is openly leading the charge.

When it comes to progressives' radical ideas, Maher is saying what a majority of Americans are thinking.

Shaming people into changing their behavior for the greater good isn't the best way to motivate them.

What we can learn about American history—and race, class and culture—from Duke Ellington's life story.

Three great American leaders of the past provide some insights about the founding of our nation.

Mornings on Memorial Day were always about honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving their country in uniform.

You don't know Sergeant Damon Gutzwiller's name—or his story—because the media didn't think it was worth telling.

Her name was Jaslyn Adams. She was a beautiful young African-American girl, all of seven years old. Late in the afternoon of April 18, she was with her father at a McDonald's drive-thru in the West Side of Chicago.

In developing its vaccine, Pfizer was doing what the private sector does best: thrive under pressure and respond to market demands as no government agency can.

The miracles of God's love, mercy and grace are everywhere.

Americans are subjected to a relentless drumbeat of negative news, but that can be a distorted picture.

The company depends upon the very fossil fuels it purports to abhor.

Before there was Mary Kay, there was Madam C.J. Walker, who went from being a child of slaves and an uneducated washerwoman to a millionaire.

George Mitchell and his band of engineer brothers helped create the U.S. shale revolution.

For millions of football fans who loved Brady before we hated him, here's one fan rooting for the 43-year-old to start in his 10th Super Bowl.

In America, it's China in reverse: A very different brand of amnesia—and self-hatred—is being promoted.

If we're lucky, we have a father, mother or mentor to guide us through our pivot points.

It was quite stunning—and amusing—to discover recently that I was no longer considered a person of color by diversity trainers in Seattle.

Americans deserve to know about what happened on that tragic night in Louisville. The grand jury testimony presents a complicated story.

"I love Springsteen and his music. I only wish, as he celebrates his 71st birthday, he'd honor the genius of Irving Berlin's music, his anthem and the people who love both," Lee Habeeb writes.

Scalia, when not firing off some of the most interesting legal opinions in Supreme Court history, loved to travel the country teaching students—law school, college and high school students alike—about our nation's Founding document.

A story worth telling on this Labor Day.

Stop pretending as if looting is ever permissible or acceptable. It isn't.

Looking back on the anniversary of a terrible event.

Denzel Washington's 2015 commencement address is worth watching in this age of turmoil, fear and division.

Boys' well-being was, in Warren Farrell's words, "a national afterthought." He boldly set out to change that.