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Opinion

Stop health insurers’ raid on Treasury

National Columnists

No one likes insurance companies — trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog’s clenched teeth — and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 trillion hole in the federal budget is the health insurance ...

State did something about its literacy crisis

National Columnists

A miracle defies the laws of nature. This is why “the Mississippi Miracle,” the sobriquet for the extraordinary gains that students in the Gulf state have made in reading in recent years, is a misnomer. There’s nothing miraculous about a state that adopts phonics and that sets high ...

Today’s generation clearly much better off

National Columnists

Have you heard how young people suffer now? Scroll social media, you see the same message: “Young people today can’t get ahead!” One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, “A family could own a home, a car and send their kids to college, all on one ...

Prime minister speaks truth (again)

National Columnists

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly was partly performance, but mostly profound. The performance part included a QR code on his lapel which delegates were invited to zoom in with their camera phones and see atrocities committed by Hamas that are ...

Tech visas are raw deal for US workers

National Columnists

The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in “specialty occupations.” The visa’s fans offer a mirror image, with a twist, of the popular argument that low-skilled immigrants ...

AI Bible videos high on action, lack substance

National Columnists

Artificial intelligence continues to impact various aspects of our lives, including changing workplace dynamics, health care management, data analysis and traditional teaching methods used in K-12 and higher education. AI is also venturing into the area of faith, with the AI Bible channel ...