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Opinion

Trump’s FTC is putting American companies last

National Columnists

President Donald Trump’s record as the deregulation president is nearly unparalleled. In his first 100 days in office, he has already identified hundreds of billions of dollars of potential deregulation savings in the areas of energy, education and housing. Hooray. But some of his new ...

Don’t make Ukraine another Vietnam

National Columnists

Fifty years ago on April 30, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and the defeat was America’s, too. South Vietnam was our ally, whose forces we trained, armed and supported with our own troops, ultimately at the cost of more than 58,000 of our service members’ lives. The grim ...

ChatGPT is actually not your friend

National Columnists

I have been deep in conversation with ChatGPT, asking all kinds of questions. Are there direct flights between the U.S. and Queretaro, Mexico? Will Apple give me credit for a 2014 iMac? What color goes with teal? What was France’s GDP in 1998? My fascination with ChatGPT has become a ...

‘Sinners’: Thought-provoking social commentary

National Columnists

“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.” This is the stern admonishment that Jedidiah Moore, a 1930s Black preacher in Clarksdale, Mississippi, gives his son Sammie in the critically acclaimed film “Sinners.” It’s a warning leading to a central ...

Trump shifts his own vibe with tariff actions

National Columnists

The vibe around President Trump’s second term has shifted, and it’s all his doing. The president entered office with a bit of a wind at his back. His polling was better than the first time around, protestors weren’t in the streets, and federal investigators weren’t after him. The GOP ...

Debunking common climate change myths

National Columnists

“Climate change will make earth a living hell!” claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I don’t believe him. My new video covers four myths about climate change: Myth 1: It’s worsening droughts. The Environmental Defense Fund wins donations partly by claiming, ...