Breaking News

National Columnists

Trump’s tariff powers on trial

In times of national emergency, should the Supreme Court dictate America’s grand strategy and international economic policies? This question confronts the justices this week in Learning Resources v. Trump, a case that puts the president’s tariff powers to the test. If President Donald Trump loses, the Treasury faces having to refund more than $100 billion in tariff revenue, and the president’s trade strategy will be thrown into chaos. Businesses that have already changed their operations because of the tariffs, drawing jobs and supply chains back to America, will be subject ...

AOC poised to be Democrats’ Trump figure

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is both radical and unqualified to be president. But she still has a clear path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination. Socialist Zohran Mamdani will likely become the next mayor of New York City. He wants a rent freeze, city-owned grocery stores and a $30-an-hour minimum wage. He once expressed his support for “seizing the means of production.” In 2020, he wrote on Twitter, “The NYPD is racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety.” He wants taxpayer-funded gender mutilation surgeries. His extreme positions haven’t ...

Yes, testing our nukes is important

Donald Trump has trampled on another taboo, and it’s a good thing. The president said in a Truth Social post that the United States will begin “immediately” testing our “Nuclear Weapons” on “an equal basis” with Russia and China. It’s not clear what this means exactly. Trump could be referring to the delivery systems that carry nuclear weapons or the weapons themselves. If it is the latter, as most news accounts assume, it will represent an advance for the U.S. nuclear deterrent and a victory of common sense over superstition. The United States conducted more than ...

Saving wildlife while securing our nation

Standing in the restored longleaf pine forest of the Nokuse Preserve in northwest Florida, I learned that it borders Eglin Air Force Base. At first glance it felt insignificant, but I soon understood that their close proximity was strategic and collaborative. In the middle of a government shutdown, it is a great reminder that government entities with differing objectives can find common ground and work toward solutions that benefit everyone. When you think of wildlife conservation, the Department of Defense probably doesn’t come to mind, and when you think of protecting endangered ...

My role is laboring in spiritual harvest

One of the things that I have most enjoyed about my commute to work in Lima, Ohio, during the Thanksgiving season is passing small farms and viewing the fields that are being cleared after the fall corn harvest. Much of the farmland is vast and such a peaceful sight to behold on a sunny day when God has decorated the sky with fluffy, white cumulus clouds. As I have sometimes passed farmers tilling the ground or gotten stuck on the road behind a wide row crop tractor, I have thought about God’s divine system of sowing and reaping. Planting seeds in the ground that yield a plentiful ...

Will Middle East be different this time?

John Templeton, the legendary fund manager, famously said, “The four most dangerous words in investing are: This time it’s different.” That warning was ignored by those in 1999 who believed profits didn’t matter in the internet age and those in 2007 who thought housing prices would rise for years to come. Templeton’s warning could apply to the Arab-Israeli conflict, too. Are we going to invest too much hope in the recent moves toward Middle Eastern peace in the belief that this time it’s different? On Oct. 13, President Donald Trump declared: “Together we’ve achieved ...