April 18, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Recently, a state senator kicked up a ruckus when she waded into the dicey subject of America’s changing image in the world. Read story
April 17, 2025, 6:01am Columns
I’m not Jewish, but my wife is, and, thus, a recent Monday evening found us in the audience for a screening of “Blind Spot” at Southwestern University, our local, 1,500-student liberal arts institution in Georgetown, Texas. Read story
April 16, 2025, 6:01am Columns
The extensive “Hands Off” protests against President Donald Trump and many of his recent actions were impressive. Some of the pushback, which ranged from mocking to dismissive from those who support Trump’s policies, was predictable but may turn out to be something critics regret. Read story
April 15, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Twice-failed Southwest Washington congressional candidate Joe Kent appears set to join the Trump administration as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Based in McLean, Va., it’s a 2,800-mile drive from Clark County. Read story
April 14, 2025, 6:01am Columns
President Donald Trump’s partial — and possibly temporary — retreat from the most radical version of his trade agenda sent the stock markets soaring. But it’s important to remember that prior to Trump’s inauguration, the tariff regime we are currently under was widely considered the worst-case scenario. Read story
April 14, 2025, 6:01am Columns
With the death of a second child from measles and cases in the U.S. surging past 600, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, finally stated the obvious: Vaccination is the best way to prevent the spread of the disease. Read story
April 14, 2025, 6:01am Columns
It’s high time commentators stopped trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn’t fit. President Donald Trump’s brand of government is as new and unique as it is volatile and disturbing. Sometimes, history neither repeats nor rhymes. Sometimes, a whole new species bursts onto the scene. Read story
April 14, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Not yet three months into a second term, President Donald Trump has taken difficult, but necessary, actions to rein in the scope of a federal government on a fiscally unsustainable path. He is also working with Republicans in Congress to extend his 2017 tax cut bill, allowing Americans to keep… Read story
April 12, 2025, 6:01am Columns
What do you do when the economy is going to hell, 401(k)s are going down the toilet and we’re bracing for higher prices on nearly everything? Read story
April 12, 2025, 6:01am Columns
President Donald Trump isn’t the first, but his may be the worst. It’s an oft-repeated pattern in American presidential politics: the reelected president who seeks to extend his electoral mandate — and fails dramatically. Read story
