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National Columnists

What kind of populist is Elon Musk?

Can the world’s richest man be a populist? Elon Musk has plenty of enemies on the left who say the Tesla CEO is too rich to be a champion of working Americans. He has opponents on the right who say the same, notably Steve Bannon, the mastermind of the 2016 Trump campaign’s ...

Trump, Musk are spring cleaning government

It’s a bit early for spring cleaning but that’s what President Trump and his faithful companion Elon Musk appear to be doing. When I was a child, every spring my mother would open closets and check the attic and basement for clothes and other items that could be discarded or given to ...

Vance promises to be ‘honest and transparent’

Vice President JD Vance said his return to the village of East Palestine, Ohio, on the second anniversary of the explosive train derailment was about more than just showing up. “I think showing up is important, but there is action behind it,” he said in an interview with the Washington ...

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 ...