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 ever find myself […]
Tag: biden
Biden’s budget was an opening bid. Where’s the Republican plan?
by Doyle McManus President Joe Biden unveiled his $6.8 trillion budget proposal last week, and it drew the customary jaded responses: a work of fiction; a party platform with price […]
Conservative values cast aside, Congress wages war on ‘woke’
While we’ve been largely focused on what’s been happening in Charleston lately, we’ve also had our eye on Washington, D.C., and the culture war backlash happening there. Last week, Congress […]
Haley’s ‘test’ idea a nonstarter, but America has aged leadership issue
How convenient that presidential hopeful Nikki Haley’s proposed mental-competency test for politicians would kick in at age 75 — just below the age of her only other announced Republican opponent, […]
Dems’ choice: Replace Biden or lose
by Nolan Finley Democrats with presidential ambitions should be calculating how much longer they can defer to President Joe Biden. The primaries are just one year away and already several […]
Chinese balloon gone, but it’s making U.S.-China relations harder to manage
by Doyle McManus The Chinese balloon that floated across the United States this month, apparently on a mission to collect intelligence, began its journey as a curiosity. Then it became […]
Unpopular president tells Americans that all is well
President Joe Biden, his approval ratings underwater for most of the past two years, made his case for a second term on Tuesday. It’s doubtful he changed many minds. The […]
Biden’s opening pitch for a second term
by Carl P. Leubsdorf Like prior presidents, Joe Biden used his State of the Union speech to build on his achievements and to lay the basis for what quite clearly […]
Biden’s successes were made possible by Obama
by David A. Hopkins It’s a safe bet that President Joe Biden will use his State of the Union address to brag about his many policy accomplishments over the last […]
Scandal? What scandal?
In our relativistic age in which everyone has his or her own “truth” and none is to be preferred over another so long as the individual feels good about it, […]




