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Compassion Rather Than Contempt Mar. 17, 2022
We've all noticed how ugly and personal politics can be. Often, it's not enough to disagree with som... Read More
And That's Why They Call It 'the Swamp' Mar. 15, 2022
With $30 trillion of debt — which has grown by $5 trillion in just the last two years, with an... Read More
Afghanistan, Not Ukraine, Is the Biggest Humanitarian Crisis Mar. 11, 2022
Maybe it's time to change the flag on your social-media avatar. To the extent that objective guidepo... Read More
Where's Biden's Comprehensive Strategy? Mar. 10, 2022
President Joe Biden lacks a comprehensive strategy. In 24 hours, yet another breathless flip-flop on... Read More
A Time for Politics -- and Religion Mar. 03, 2022
Lent began this week. In the Christian tradition, the Lenten period is a time of fasting and prayer,... Read More
Ants of the World, Unite Feb. 24, 2022
Donald Trump's strength as a president was not that he was better at running the country. It was tha... Read More
My Sister Only Sees in Red and Blue Feb. 18, 2022
Dear Annie: I read with great interest the letter written by "Nostalgic and Regretful," who was wond... Read More
Must Government Be a 'Big, Waddling, Sluggish Beast'? Feb. 18, 2022
Itinerant policy journalist Ezra Klein, now with the New York Times, has highlighted something inter... Read More
The View From Budapest Feb. 18, 2022
I'm writing from Budapest, the beautiful, Danube-bestriding Hungarian capital. Hungary, though a far... Read More
How Do You Feel About Sarah Palin? It Shouldn't Matter Feb. 18, 2022
Scrolling through the comment sections under news stories about Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit aga... Read More
Biden Goes to Ohio, and Other Irrelevancies Feb. 17, 2022
The headlines about the polls are right, of course. President Joe Biden's approval rating is in the ... Read More
Reclaiming Our Country and Our Individual Agency Feb. 17, 2022
Americans are basically good and decent people who tend to assume the best of others — especia... Read More
Under Pandemic Lockdowns, the Rich Got Richer and the Poor Got Crushed Feb. 15, 2022
Today, two years after COVID-19 first hit these shores from China, most studies confirm that the hea... Read More
Lamentations About Redistricting Ending Democracy Prove Hypocritical -- and Wrong Feb. 11, 2022
Masks were necessary, especially in schools, to prevent mass deaths. Or so we were told, at great an... Read More
Biden's Afghanistan Debacle Looks Worse and Worse Feb. 11, 2022
While the Biden administration's chaotic and inept withdrawal from Afghanistan was unfolding in Augu... Read More
It's Not Science That Has Changed; It's the Political Calculus Feb. 10, 2022
Dr. Leana Wen, who appears on CNN frequently as a medical analyst, got tongues wagging earlier this ... Read More
Partisan Politics Cloud the Capitol Riot's Significance: Neither Republicans nor Democrats Can Be Trusted to Give an Honest Account of What Happened That Day Feb. 09, 2022
You may have heard that the Republican National Committee described last year's Capitol riot as "leg... Read More
Why Are Liberals So Miserable? Feb. 08, 2022
I'm the kind of guy Who never used to cry The world is treatin' me bad Misery — The Beatles ... Read More
A Simple Proposal from a Resident of London in 1941: Let's Give Up on World War II Feb. 05, 2022
Feb. 3, 1941 To the editor of The Daily Mirror, It is with a profound sense of dismay that I write t... Read More
The Limits of Appeals to 'Cancel Culture' Feb. 04, 2022
The metastasis of the woke ideology, which seeps through our moribund body politic like a cancer, ha... Read More
