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Opinion

Documentary takes look at feminist movement

National Columnists

Buried inside a new documentary about the women’s liberation movement is a gem that lands like a ton of bricks. “Dear Ms.: A revolution in print” blends archival footage with recent interviews of the founders behind the feminist movement’s flagship magazine, tracing back to 1972. At ...

What 12-day war of June 2025 hath wrought

National Columnists

Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. You will not encounter much in the way of exhilaration in similar milieus today at Israel’s multifront and even more astonishing victory, capped off by the U.S. ...

Let’s pray for great national reawakening

National Columnists

Getting ready for the great celebration next year of America’s 250th anniversary, Gallup serves up sobering data. Per polling just released by Gallup, only 58% of Americans now say they are “extremely proud” or “very proud” to be an American. When Gallup first asked this question ...

We were trying to build childhood memories

National Columnists

I refuse to try to build any more precious childhood memories for my kids. I’m just giving them fuel for the therapist’s office (and I’m sure they already have enough of that). The camel’s back-breaking straw came the other day, when my husband and I took our kids to an open-air ...

Canada might do well to get dumped

National Columnists

The U.S. and Canada have been stuck in a long-term marriage of convenience. But now Canada is finally starting to date around, even if the two still have to share the same continental roof. Just as Canada prepared to implement a long-awaited 3 percent tax this week on Canadian revenues over ...

Social Security, Medicare in danger

National Columnists

Considering recent news, you may have missed that the 2025 trustees reports for Social Security and Medicare are out. The Social Security retirement trust fund and Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund are each on pace to run dry by 2033. When that happens, seniors will face an automatic 23% ...