×

National Columnists

Trump OK with little history knowledge

Don’t know much about history? That’s OK with President Trump Of the 21 museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution, one in particular seems recently to have rubbed President Donald Trump the wrong way. “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL,” Trump fulminated in a social ...

When you’re a parent, it’s always first day of school

The first day of school recently arrived at our house. I woke up early to get the kids ready in time to take a few pictures out on the front porch before we left. I have to admit, I made them do the chalkboard thing – the mug shot where you write their teacher’s name and their grade on a ...

RFK Jr. won’t make us healthier — but can make us sicker

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was named as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Calley Means, a former Republican lobbyist, expressed a common misconception: “The public health expert class has given us a public health collapse. We are on the verge of, at best, a health crisis and, at worst, ...

When government gets involved, leviathan grows

The economy can be both very complex and very simple. In simplified terms, consider two buckets. One is the public sector, and one is the private sector. As more money flows into the bucket of the public sector and fills it up, the private sector bucket does not fill up. However, the private ...

Summits offer roadmap to end Russia-Ukraine War

Two months after the breathtaking Operation Midnight Hammer strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and the ceasefire with Israel that soon followed, President Donald Trump has once again upended conventional foreign policy wisdom. After years of escalatory rhetoric, moral posturing and ...

Will Trump help Ukraine stop Russia’s westward drive?

The extraordinary pair of meetings recently — the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska,and Donald Trump’s hosting of the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Finland, as well as the NATO alliance and the European Commission — were prompted by the latest iteration of a ...