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Editorials and columns

To enforce the laws faithfully

When the IRS announced two weeks ago that it would not enforce a section of federal law commonly called the Johnson Amendment, many clerics rejoiced. The Johnson Amendment — named for its author, then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson — strikes a bargain with charities. You accept tax-free dollars, ...

Trump and Huckabee took the right stand for Christians in the Holy Land

At the White House press briefing on July 17, EWTN White House Correspondent Owen Jenson asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the Catholic church in Gaza that had been struck that day by an artillery shell. "In Gaza today, Holy Family Catholic Church was struck by an ...

Breaking the public school monopoly on education overdue

The Trump administration has been pursuing, on two fronts, the critical objective of fixing America's broken education system. One, an executive order by President Donald Trump, issued shortly after he assumed office, is to dismantle the Department of Education. Outright closing of the ...

What will AI do for our happiness?

The West faces a series of serious economic challenges: a demographic collapse that undermines growth; a welfare state that sucks money from the future and dispenses it in the present; a regulatory structure that focuses more on redistributionism and top-down control than on innovation. But, we ...

Trump’s Fed battle a matter of fiscal — not just political — control

President Donald Trump is once again floating the idea of firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, ostensibly in objection to excessively high interest rates. But this debate is not about monetary policy. It's a power play aimed at subordinating America's central bank to the fiscal needs ...

Things are more rewarding after greater effort

I get up in the morning and take a shower. It feels good and wakes me up, but it is nowhere nearly as refreshing as the shower I take after a great workout, a day of working in the yard, or hours of volunteering to pour concrete and assemble benches in some sticky humidity. I’ve had plenty ...