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National Columnists

Rent control schemes will backfire

It’s clear why President Joe Biden desperately wants to bring down housing prices and rent. With mortgage interest rates double what they were when former President Donald Trump took office, mortgage payments have roughly doubled since 2020, and rents are up in many cities by more than ...

Telling truth about Gaza, Israel

Last week one of the world’s great orators came to Washington and delivered an address to Congress that was so powerful and so true that a number of Democrat progressives boycotted his remarks, apparently because they can’t handle the truth. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Difference-maker: Philanthropist lifts city

Some years ago, John Connors Jr. was touring an inner-city Boston school that he had helped fund out of his own pocket. Connors was long legendary for his relentless, titanic philanthropy, always on 24/7 alert for ways to do as much good in as many ways for as many people as possible. He’d ...

Coup of Biden will not work out well

The Democratic Party ruling class’s coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, who also happens to be the nominal sitting president of the United States, is one of the most astonishing political developments of my lifetime. Joe Biden has sought the presidency for quite ...

For now it’s Harris as Biden’s successor

Bad start. President Joe Biden gave his vice president only one major responsibility and Congress has given the VP position only one ongoing major responsibility. Long-term, the border crisis will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the biggest domestic failures in American history. ...

What ‘pro-worker’ GOP would look like

Members of the new right wing of the Republican Party have proclaimed themselves the champions of the working class. I am sure they mean it, despite many of them being among the elite of the elite. And because so many are lawyers — including those like VP nominee J.D. Vance who come from ...