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Opinion

Some new electoral history is being made

National Columnists

You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France’s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’s ...

Big, beautiful bromance breaks up

National Columnists

For those who think government should be run like a business, the messy social media spat that played out between President Trump and billionaire CEO Elon Musk suggested that business could be doing a lot better. Ironically, the fight played out on the social media platforms Truth Social, ...

They’re asking wrong questions in Epstein case

National Columnists

Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself. Or maybe he did. Who knows. Either way, you’re asking the wrong question. Even Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and longtime Epstein conspiracy evangelist, recently turned FBI deputy director, now sounds tired of addressing whether, in 2019, ...

Warrantless spying just got worse

National Columnists

Recently, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies. Here is the backstory. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right ...

Renaming ship reestablishes warrior culture

National Columnists

Last week, the Department of Defense made an unprecedented move: They renamed a ship, originally christened the USNS Harvey Milk. According to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s memo, the goal was to ensure “alignment with president and SECDEF objectives and SECNAV priorities of ...

Here’s real cause of our growing national debt

National Columnists

Recently, the credit rating of the United States was downgraded. Moody’s, the ratings firm, announced that the U.S. government’s rising debt levels will grow further if the Trump Republican package of new tax cuts is enacted. This makes lending to the United States riskier. (Moody’s is ...