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National Columnists

As food prices rise, give to those in need

Eggs have never been a regular item on my grocery shopping list, but toward the end of last year, I began buying more of them because I was experimenting with various turkey meatloaf recipes. When I had extra time to cook breakfast, I prepared scrambled eggs using avocado oil as a base. ...

Are Trump’s tariffs really tariffs?

Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Donald Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries. Certainly, tariffs are widely hated by doctrinaire economists. They complain that tariffs burden consumers with higher prices to protect weak domestic industries ...

There’s joy, as well as fear, in missing out

I’ve decided to miss out on more these days. Maybe you’ve heard of FOMO, the “fear of missing out.” Well, this is the opposite. I’m trying to find JOMO, the “joy of missing out.” For my JOMO education, I can thank Christina Crook, an author who specializes in “digital ...

Trump bursts into his second term

President Donald Trump burst out of the gates into his second term with the speed of a Kentucky Derby winner. Executive orders turning the status quo upside have flown in gusts from the Oval Office ever since Mr. Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Nothing like this has been witnessed since ...

International aid destroys poor nations’ economies

It’s impossible to overstate the impact that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are having on American government — and the public’s knowledge about what’s really being done with our money. Nowhere is that more evident than the erupting scandal involving the United ...

Democrats do have a coherent message

It’s not true as has been reported that Democrats don’t have a “coherent message” and are wallowing in confusion. They DO have a message. Unfortunately for them, it’s the same one that caused the party to lose the White House, the Senate and the House in last November’s election. ...