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Opinion

Save Little Sisters of the Poor

National Columnists

It’s enraging. More than a decade after the Obama administration tried to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to buy contraception for their employees, including abortifacient drugs, states are still hounding the nuns in court. The Affordable Care Act mandated employers, including ...

Life can be both cruel, joyful

National Columnists

A few weeks ago, I participated in a “Care-a-Thon” for the AFLAC Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. This year, the care-a-thon raised over $2 million. Three days before the fundraiser, I accompanied my wife to her quarterly scans, tests, and oncology ...

America is wild, get out to enjoy it

National Columnists

When I was a kid, my family often drove from northern Kentucky to Clearwater, Florida, where my grandmother had retired. We loaded down our van with camping gear and snorkels. Along the way, we camped in the Smokey Mountains, canoed with alligators in the Okefenokee Swamp and snorkeled with the ...

New climate report deserves to be debated

National Columnists

A new report from the Department of Energy concludes that, yes, the climate is changing and humans contribute to it — but no, it’s not necessarily the impending catastrophe we’ve been warned about. In another era, an agency charting this kind of middle course would be unremarkable. Today, ...

Washington, D.C., not safe as it was years ago

National Columnists

I was born in Washington, D.C., at the end of 1942. Growing up in the suburbs there was so little crime it made the front page in the city’s three newspapers. Today, unless someone who works on Capitol Hill is murdered, or associated with a prominent business, stories are usually buried in ...

For America, it’s time to count what really counts

National Columnists

Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn’t like the numbers announced in her monthly jobs report. The bureau reports not only on jobs, but also on inflation and compensation. All those numbers affect policy and politics. Slowing job growth might ...