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Trump is right on gas-powered cars

National Columnists

President Trump likes to tout his accomplishments, and saving the gas-powered car should be high on the list. The president is ending a government campaign against the internal combustion engine, one of the defining mechanisms of our age. This uneconomical push for electric vehicles over gas-powered ones ignored consumer preferences and relied on high-handed executive overreach. The New York Times said Trump has thrown “the weight of the federal government behind vehicles that burn gasoline,” although all he’s really done is lift the federal thumb from the scale in favor of ...

Adulthood does not remove fear

National Columnists

For most of my life, I believed bravery belonged to people who felt certain. Heroes in stories seemed steady. Leaders seemed equipped. Even the adults of my childhood seemed to wake each morning with confidence about who they were and what they were doing. I assumed that once I grew up, that clarity would arrive for me, too. What arrived instead was the realization that every grown person is improvising. Every leader is managing more than anyone sees. Every parent is hoping they guessed right. Life reveals that bravery is not a posture built from certainty. It is an act built on fear ...

Trump right to wage war on cartels

National Columnists

While I am willing to criticize the President, and such criticisms have cost me jobs and opportunities over the years, there are also many things he has done that I agree with. As an aside, the poor man zone of punditry on the left and right is being the person willing to praise and criticize from inside the tent. Going all in and all against is what sells. Nuance does not. But let me now make a nuanced case for the president. The legally meritorious argument is simply stated. Narcotics trafficking is a federal crime. Drug traffickers have been running drugs into the United States for ...

What’s ahead in 2026 political landscape?

National Columnists

The political landscape heading into the 2026 midterms is far more volatile than many Republicans want to admit. On paper, the GOP holds the advantage: the House majority, a favorable national mood on issues like immigration and crime, and an opposition party internally split between moderates and an increasingly aggressive progressive wing. But beneath the surface, a series of electoral tremors from special elections to off-year contests should give Republicans serious pause. The numbers, the trendlines and recent history all point in the same direction: Democrats have more energy than ...

Climate change reaching its demise

National Columnists

For years, climate alarmism has reigned as political catechism: The planet is burning, and only drastic action — deindustrialization, draconian regulation, even ceasing childbearing — could forestall certain apocalypse. Now, at least some signs are emerging that both the broader public and leading liberal voices may be recoiling from the doom and gloom. First, recent polling shows that the intensity of climate dread is weakening. According to a July 2025 report from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, while a majority (69%) of Americans still say global warming is ...

EPA decision harms tribal, rural communities

Letters to the Editor

Lisa Finley DeVille, Mandaree The EPA’s decision to narrow the scope of the Clean Water Act is troubling, especially for communities like ours who live with the consequences of weakened water protections from oil and gas development. Wetlands are vital to our survival. They filter pollution before it reaches our rivers, reduce flooding, and sustain entire ecosystems and habitat for thousands of aquatic species and cultural plant life that our people have depended on for generations. Removing federal protections ignores the science and the reality on the ground, where every acre of ...