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Opinion

When government gets involved, leviathan grows

National Columnists

The economy can be both very complex and very simple. In simplified terms, consider two buckets. One is the public sector, and one is the private sector. As more money flows into the bucket of the public sector and fills it up, the private sector bucket does not fill up. However, the private ...

Summits offer roadmap to end Russia-Ukraine War

National Columnists

Two months after the breathtaking Operation Midnight Hammer strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and the ceasefire with Israel that soon followed, President Donald Trump has once again upended conventional foreign policy wisdom. After years of escalatory rhetoric, moral posturing and ...

Will Trump help Ukraine stop Russia’s westward drive?

National Columnists

The extraordinary pair of meetings recently — the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska,and Donald Trump’s hosting of the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Finland, as well as the NATO alliance and the European Commission — were prompted by the latest iteration of a ...

Thank you to local representative

Letters to the Editor

Debra Zavada, Wolford On May 13, 2025, bad actors on the dark web hacked my North Dakota Teachers’ Fund for Retirement account and were able to have my June 1st pension sent to Green Dot Bank. I discovered this on June 2. The North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office was unable to ...

Trump declares war on mail-in voting

National Columnists

President Donald Trump is declaring war on mail-in voting. In a recent announcement, the president stated that an executive order to end mail-in voting in federal elections is currently being drafted. There’s been a lot of talk over the past two presidential cycles over mail-in voting and ...

Good immigrants make America stronger

National Columnists

This week, news emerged that the Trump administration has been setting new standards with regard to incoming immigrants. According to Axios, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will not take into account the “positive attributes” of migrants entering the country; such attributes ...