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VP Kamala Harris visits the ‘BINO’

Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit last Friday to a border region in Arizona takes political cynicism to a new low. It is like hoping to score political points by visiting the relative of someone who has been murdered by a man your policies caused to be let out of jail despite his criminal ...

Bottom line on border: It’s already orderly

There were fewer arrests at the Southern border in July than in the last month of the Trump presidency. Shelters have seen a massive drop in migrants. And Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is having a hard time finding enough recent arrivals to fill buses headed north. The reason for this development ...

Iranian inanity comes home to roost

In June 2006, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was asked in Boston what the Democrats’ plan was for dealing with Iran, designated even then by our State Department as the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism and well on its way to acquiring nuclear weapons. “I don’t know,” Durbin ...

Why Jews should reject Trump

Dear Fellow Jewish American, I beg you to consider the consequences of a Trump victory. In the aftermath of Oct. 7, we’ve seen an ugly new chapter in left-wing antisemitism. Left-wing activists on campuses and elsewhere adorned their posters with images of hang gliders, delighting, one ...

In a place that feels like family

When you sit down at Ben’s Chili Bowl, cofounder Virginia R. Ali is apt to greet you and tell you she is glad you’re here. If you’re lucky, she’ll tell stories of her life that intersect with every chapter of the city since 1958, the year she and her late husband opened the ...

More women than men moving left

It’s not news that young people are further on the left of the political spectrum than older generations. Of unique interest now is that the movement to the left is more disproportionate among young women than young men. As a nation we should know this is happening and try to understand ...