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National Columnists

Why tech titans backed Trump

Why did Marc Andreessen — inventor of the first internet web browser, and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today — switch from his longstanding support of the Democratic Party and back President-elect Donald Trump this year? Because, in his view, the Democrats who ...

Universal health care results in shortages, rationing

The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan is generating new headlines by the hour. The suspect in the murder — 26-year-old Luigi Mangione — was found in Pennsylvania and will likely be extradited to New York to face murder charges. Thompson’s murder has ...

Not all of your tax dollars are at work

Government excels at NOT getting things done. But politicians promise more things anyway. Kamala Harris declared that our government would “build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable!” This “Broadband Connectivity Agenda” was supported by “every House Republican on Energy and ...

What’s going on with Black and Hispanic women?

One question emerging from the presidential election exit polls is the disconnect between Black men and women and Hispanic men and women. Donald Trump received support from 21% of Black men and 7% of Black women, a disparity of 14 points. He got support from 54% of Hispanic men and 39% of ...

Work required to reclaim mantle of change

“Democrats are like the Yankees,” said one of the most memorable tweets to come across on X after Election Day. “Spent hundreds of millions of dollars to lose the big series and no one got fired or was held accountable.” Too sad. But that’s politics. The disappointment behind that ...

Politics of economic redistribution, RIP

Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man? Those are questions that Democrats are asking after Vice President Kamala ...