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National Columnists

Focus this week on caring for others

This week, millions of Americans will go to work thinking about when to thaw out their turkeys (start today), which sides to cook, what time to head off on travel and living arrangements for company. As they drive out, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jeffrey Epstein and even President Donald Trump will ...

What does it mean to be an American?

The chaotic confrontation in Dearborn, Michigan, last Tuesday — when a demonstrator attempted to burn a Qur’an and Muslim counter-protesters surged — was more than a brief flash of drama. Along with other recent controversies in Arab-majority Dearborn, such as when the Muslim mayor told a ...

Immigration enforcement not equivalent to Holocaust

Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course, not everyone believes that, and many who do stop short of saying so. But the contrast between the rhetoric and policies of the first two decades of ...

Move to red state for more ‘affordability’

The buzzword of the month is “affordability,” and based on the election results from New York, New Jersey and Virginia, voters think that’s declining. Democrats think they’ve found a winning issue here to win back the hearts and minds of voters after the Trump sweep last year. It’s ...

Former vice president was great boss

To the rest of the world he was the vice president of the United States, but we all called him “the boss.” He was the ultimate boss. Dick Cheney was tough. That part of him is widely understood. Almost everything else is misunderstood. Working for him for eight years, the man I got to ...

America is not ready for female president?

Former first lady Michelle Obama says America is not ready for a female president. In a series of recent interviews promoting her new book, Michelle Obama points to the losses of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton as evidence of what she regards as sexism. Recall that similar things were once ...