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Opinion

Company helps people feel great again

National Columnists

Tyler Merritt understands the power of community, belonging and purpose. It’s what drew him toward the military as a high school senior, not long after the Sept. 11 attacks. This service eventually led him to become an Apache helicopter pilot in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, ...

Great Britain is in need of reform

National Columnists

Is Great Britain on the brink of a Trump revolution? The president’s visit to the U.K. coincides with indications Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is tottering. Starmer’s own party increasingly thinks he has to go — and if Labour fares as poorly as polls suggest it ...

Did Charlie Kirk’s killer do it to show he could?

National Columnists

This is not about Charlie Kirk. He was admirable as a debater and as a conservative who welcomed debate. Some of his utterances were reprehensible, but no one should die because of opinions. This is about the 22-year-old who apparently shot and killed Kirk from a rooftop — and also the ...

Political violence cannot continue

National Columnists

As I watched the sorrowful and horrifying news reports of the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk while he was speaking at Utah Valley University, I thought about how political violence and gun violence are driving our nation to a dangerous edge of no return. Other ...

Super Smell Woman’s nose knows

National Columnists

Superman is able to see through walls. Spider-Man can detect things with his Spidey-sense. Me? I can smell something in the next county. Yes, it’s true. I am Super Smell Woman (not to be confused with the significantly less appealing Super Smelly Woman). I can detect unseen mold under a ...

Is another era of political violence upon us?

National Columnists

In his life’s work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or left, a great deal of optimism about the direction of our nation’s partisan politics. But his brutal assassination, captured in horrific ...