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Opinion

Mamdani’s Islamophobia canard

Editorials and columns

Zohran Mamdani has a hard time keeping it together when he thinks about Sept. 11 and its aftermath. Not -- judging by his performance the other day -- when he contemplates the impact of two screaming jetliners on the Twin Towers; nor when he remembers the sacrifice of hundreds of courageous ...

Believe Me When I Tell You

Editorials and columns

Believe me when I tell you Washington is going through stages of grief at the sudden demolition of the White House East Wing. The wreckage looks like a crime scene, with President Donald Trump's thumbprints on it. He didn't ask or tell people, he just destroyed a sacred structure that sang of ...

Price of a Life

Editorials and columns

"But people will die!" That's what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending. An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn't cover illegal immigrants. Ernst responded with an obvious truth: "We all are going to ...

What the World’s Richest Country Can’t Afford

Editorials and columns

Undermining the principles that made America wealthy is no way to fix poverty. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently participated in a CNN Town Hall. Sanders appears to be passing the socialist leadership torch to AOC. Don't expect her to support collective ownership ...