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Opinion

Living in lockdown USA

Editorials and columns

"Just FYI if you're seeing the news right now, I'm totally safe," a son enrolled at Brown University texted me. "I've been home for a few hours now and wasn't there when stuff started to happen. Seems to be some crazy shooting near brown." What?! I turned on CNN and saw the quaint streets of ...

Trump’s inflation trap

Editorials and columns

What can Donald Trump do to stop morphing into Joe Biden? The two presidents could hardly be more different in most ways -- but in the one that counts most with voters, Trump is in danger of resembling his predecessor. Americans rejected Biden and the Democrats last year because they were ...

Mr. Trump goes to the grocery store

Editorials and columns

CCTV captured this (completely fake) conversation between President Donald Trump and a grocery store clerk yesterday. CLERK: That'll be $286.47, Mr. President. TRUMP: Did you swipe my customer rewards card? I thought the Twinkies were half off. CLERK: Yes, I did, but we're doing this new ...

The shameful conspiracy theories of Candace Owens

Editorials and columns

Few would have guessed that Erika Kirk would have to spend energy these last few, heart-breaking months fending off a right-wing influencer bent on implicating her slain husband's own organization, TPUSA, in his assassination. Here we are, though. Influential voices on the right have become ...

Trump’s national security strategy is on target

Editorials and columns

When former President George W. Bush stood on the West Front of the Capitol for his second inauguration in 2005, he gave a speech that called for a utopian foreign policy that aimed at spreading democracy all across the globe. "We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The ...

Things are about to get worse for Mike Johnson

Editorials and columns

Here's a conundrum for Republican politicians going into 2026, and even 2028. What do you do when you've turned the GOP into a Trump-branded, populist, anti-establishment party but your party controls the government and it's not going very well? One time-tested answer: ritual human sacrifice. ...