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Editorials and columns

Secure borders win wars like this one

The Iran crisis of the past two weeks isn't just about nuclear weapons — it's also an urgent reminder that border security is national security. Tehran's terrorist agents are a weapon with a much longer reach than any of the mullahs' missiles. They've been a threat to Salman Rushdie's ...

Eisenhower, Reagan — Beacons of principles Trump carries on

On Sept. 11, 2001, Muslim fanatics flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing upward of 3,000 innocent American civilians. Americans asked why? We ask again today. We hear from the Iranian regime, "Death to America," "Death to Israel." Why? The unfortunate answer is, ...

Trump’s Iran bombings roll out the red carpet for nukes, terrorism

PARIS — Nobody wanted the U.S. to bomb Iran last weekend — especially not Americans. A full 60 percent thought Trump should stay out of this Israel-Iran gong show, and just 19 percent of his own voters supported intervening after Israel bombed Iran two weeks ago, according to a recent ...

‘Vietnam syndrome’ and the current state of affairs

After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that "the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert." Bush was referring to what was commonly called the "Vietnam syndrome." The idea was that the Vietnam War had so ...

For America to win the AI Race, keep government’s hands off

At the birth of the internet age in the early 1990s, the U.S. and Europe took opposite approaches to advancing this new economy-changing technology. Europe tried the approach of industrial policy: They allowed government to regulate, subsidize and then tax the swarm of new tech companies that ...

New York Times deplores Sean Duffy’s large-family conspiracy

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is apparently the leader of a menacing conspiracy. The New York Times put this on the June 24 front page: "Under Trump, Ex-MTV Star Pitches Big Families." But he used to be a bad boy on MTV, so the headline underneath was "From a Racy Past to a Key Cabinet ...