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National Columnists

Politics of steel at center stage

Just hours before United States Steel shareholders approved the sale of the legendary Pittsburgh-based company to Japan’s Nippon Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves stood in front of a packed room of steelworkers at his Butler Works plant in Pennsylvania and let them know just what ...

Candidate placates untethered wing of party

The 350 missiles fired at Israelis were fired by Iran, which has consistently pledged to annihilate Israel. This, of course, is a pledge to commit genocide, defined by Oxford Dictionary as “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the ...

Hold Obama-Biden responsible for Iran’s attack

The terrorist Iranian regime’s unprecedented recent attack on Israel, which included 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles, is an unambiguous casus belli — an act of war — under international law. Of course, Iranian proxies spread across the Middle East, ...

Young Americans struggle to find joy

The 2024 World Happiness Report, which is a collaboration with Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the World Happiness Report Editorial Board, found that young Americans under 30 are much more displeased with their lives ...

Parents have right to make mistakes

Do parents have the right to make a mistake? That’s the question at hand when we talk about medication and surgery for gender dysphoria in children. But it’s not an issue that begins when kids enter puberty. Parents start making high-stakes medical decisions, ones that have lifelong ...

Support from Republican evangelicals has declined

Black voters have traditionally been pivotal to the fortunes of the Democratic Party, but some recent polls have suggested that they are proving less bankable for President Joe Biden than in the past. Whether or not as many as 20% of Black voters have in fact deserted the Democrats, as some ...