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National Columnists

Boston mayor vs. immigration enforcement

The Mayor of Boston wants everyone to know that her city is all about the fundamentally American value of protecting lawbreakers. Michelle Wu, a first-term Democrat, is a fierce defender of Boston’s sanctuary city policies that seek to frustrate federal immigration enforcement. She sees ...

Experts have themselves to blame for distrust

Now they tell us. “We were badly misled about the event that changed our lives.” So reads the headline on Princeton professor Zeynep Tufekci’s March 16 article in The New York Times. The event was, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the bad misleading came from scientists who ...

Why are elite schools getting federal money?

Columbia University at first appeared to have surrendered to President Trump’s demands that the New York school stop coddling antisemitic and anti-Israel demonstrators. The school announced it was buckling, not on principle, but because it wants the $400 million in federal grants and ...

Authors say great things can be accomplished

“Imagine boarding a train in the center of a city,” former President Barack Obama rhapsodized in April 2009. “No racing to an airport and across a terminal, no delays, no sitting on the tarmac, no lost luggage, no taking off your shoes. Imagine whisking through towns at speeds over 100 ...

Government pamphlet is France’s DIY war effort guide

How do you know that your government is useless? When it starts outsourcing its own job to you. French President Emmanuel Macron isn’t one to let a crisis - manufactured or otherwise - go to waste. Now that Moscow and Washington are finally talking about ending the war in Ukraine, Europe is ...

Manufacturing evolving, not collapsing

If you believe the political rhetoric, you probably think America’s industrial base has been hollowed out, gutted or “shipped overseas.” Across the ideological spectrum, people say U.S. manufacturing is in decline. They argue mostly about who’s to blame and how many tariffs we need to ...