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Editorials and columns

What do we do about China?

The United States is confronting an existential threat -- but not the kind defined by ships on the horizon or missiles in the air. The danger instead stems from a waning sense of national purpose and a growing doubt about America's global role. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the emerging ...

Walz, Omar and the billion-dollar Minnesota fraud scandal

Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz's evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and ...

Australia: won’t somebody please think of the children?

After stripping its citizens of the right to self-defense, locking down millions under COVID-19 totalitarianism and treating freedom of speech like a roadblock to socialist utopia, Australia has decided to take its already well-established love of government overreach and crank it up another ...

Yes, revive the Monroe Doctrine

President Trump likes putting his name on things, so maybe it was inevitable he'd get his own corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Truth be told, what the president's just-released national security strategy sets out as a new proposition is really a restatement of the Lodge Corollary, named ...

The ‘walking wounded’ at the holidays

The holiday season is often portrayed as a time of joy, warmth, and togetherness. Streets glow with twinkling lights, homes fill with the sound of laughter, and families gather to celebrate traditions old and new. Yet, beneath the festive surface, many individuals experience a quiet sorrow, ...