Breaking News

Columns/Opinion

Build bridges to employment

Just over a month ago, leaders from the Democratic Party made the trip to the White House to discuss a possible trillion-dollar infrastructure bill aimed at repairing the nation’s roads and highways, outdated electrical power lines and grids, water systems, and complex and malfunctioning public transit systems. Those talks collapsed as soon as they began, much to the frustration of most Americans. When the president and congressional leaders walked away from the talks, the major losers, apart from America’s dangerously decaying infrastructure, were the millions of people who ...

Biden looks to be joining Democrats in left field

Michelle Malkin is off this week. The following is by Betsy McCaughey. Nineteen Democrats running for president took the stage in Iowa on Sunday to woo voters. It was a circus of left-wingers going bonkers for things most Americans don’t want. The front-runners back abortion anytime before birth, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, outlawing gas-burning cars, shutting down fossil fuel industries that employ millions and redistributing wealth. These White House contenders are veering far left, even though polls show half their own party’s voters aren’t ...

Once again, MLK stands accused

What are you prepared to believe about the private life of Martin Luther King Jr.? Throughout his career leading the civil rights movement, he was the target of extensive FBI surveillance, which detailed excessive drinking and extramarital sexual relationships, behavior that has been confirmed by historians. But would you believe that King was an accessory to rape? That is the explosive and highly controversial contention of the civil rights icon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, David Garrow, writing in the conservative British journal Standpoint. The evidence ...

A case for restorative justice

Ava DuVernay’s dramatic Netflix miniseries “When They See Us” chronicles the infamous wrongful conviction of five black and Latino teenagers in New York City for the brutal 1989 rape and assault of a young white woman who was attacked while jogging in Central Park. In its depiction of Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein, who oversaw the investigation and prosecution of the teens, the series has sparked a long-overdue conversation about the role of prosecutors in perpetrating false convictions. Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana, both 14; Yusef Salaam and Antron McCray, both ...

Mexico was easy target for threats

Mexico is breathing a collective sigh of relief following President Trump’s decision to temporarily suspend his threat to impose draconian tariffs on Mexican goods. But don’t kid yourself: The truce is not likely to last long. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s self-imposed international isolation has left this country in a weak diplomatic position to defend itself from Trump’s tantrums. That is likely to embolden the U.S. president to further step up his attacks on Mexico as he begins his 2020 re-election campaign. Granted, Trump’s threat to impose tariffs ...

Finding people to fill small town’s empty spaces

A tiny French mountain village with a long name, L’Hospitalet-pres-l’Andorre, has lost half its population over three decades, according to the French newspaper Le Monde. Its name in English would be “The Hospital Near Andorra.” (Andorra is a small principality shoehorned between France and Spain.) The village can tick off the losses. First the customs office closed, causing the five families whom it supported to leave. (The village’s economy mainly depended on the town’s location on the road to Andorra and some tourism in the Pyrenees mountains.) Other jobs were erased ...