by Patricia Murphy Donald Trump has never been an understated man. His motto in life always seems to have been, “Why just do something when you can […]
Author: Syndicated Columnist
20 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq
by Byron York It’s been two decades since, on March 19, 2003, United States forces invaded Iraq. President George W. Bush ordered the invasion to neutralize what […]
Tennessee’s strict abortion law stopping woman from having more children
by Jennifer Shinall Over the New Year’s holiday, my husband and I received the surprise of our lives: a positive pregnancy test. The pregnancy was unplanned, but […]
Prosecuting Russia for war crimes
Why is the U.S. stalling in its support? by Alex Hinton Should the U.S. do everything it can to help hold Russia accountable for its atrocity crimes […]
Why I like public schools and, for that matter, the Post Office
by John M. Crisp I like public schools for the same reason that William Faulkner hated the Post Office. Before Faulkner became the great Southern novelist, he […]
Biden’s right turn ‘a slap’ to young voters
by Will Bunch If you’ve never heard of the Willow project — the massive, up-to-600-million-barrels oil-drilling venture on federal lands in the Alaska wilderness that was greenlighted […]
Learn to recognize political rhetoric
by David L. Nevins When I think about the tactics of the Democrat and Republican parties, I am reminded of lyrics from the Buffalo Springfield song 50 […]
Don’t let this little known passport rule ground you
by Fabiola Santiago There I was, booking spring birthday travel, high as a college freshman after scoring some really good stuff: Reasonable airfare from Miami to Morocco. […]
Oscar-winning ‘Navalny’ tells terrifying and funny story
by Trudy Rubin The awarding of the Oscar for best documentary to the film “Navalny” was well-deserved, not only because it is a riveting film, but because […]
Biden finds border isn’t ‘pretty simple’ — and may need Trump’s old policies
by Cynthia M. Allen Before I had kids, I can remember thinking, as I watched a mom struggling with her toddler in the grocery store: I won’t […]