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National Columnists

Social media’s influence cannot be ignored

A plethora of lawsuits, involving more than 1,800 plaintiffs, have been filed against social media companies within the past two years. We are now seeing some progress being made toward litigation, as 11 social media addiction cases have been selected for test hearings by U.S. District Judge ...

Choice is heat stroke or air conditioning

If you asked my dad the top three causes of illness worldwide, here’s what he’d say: No. 3: Walking around inside the house barefoot. No. 2: Leaving the house with wet hair. No. 1: Air conditioning. I understand not being accustomed to air conditioning. He didn’t grow up with ...

Western European leaders in sync with actions

President Donald Trump does not want to be a wartime president. He wants to be the president who, as he did at Mar-a-Lago in 2017, enjoyed “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you’ve ever seen,” as he informed Chinese President Xi Jinping that the U.S. had just dropped bombs on ...

Iranian regime no friend to Middle East peace

The proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” goes back to Roman times. But being repeated through the centuries doesn’t mean it’s always true. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump ordered warplanes to bomb Iranian nuclear development ...

We need to make America clean again

Following trips to different countries over many years I have longed to return home and hear these words from an immigration officer: “Welcome back to the United States.” Something felt different this time. After three weeks away - two days in Doha and the rest in Vietnam, Hong Kong and ...

Israel or US can ensure non-nuclear Iran

It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar – the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out – and a ceasefire. Iran would ...