Voting for America first
Martin Schram There was a time when many of President Donald Trump’s top officials – including his cabinet-level advisers on national and global security –... Read more.
Will the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action ruling affect where high-school seniors attend college?
Sheldon H. Jacobson High-school seniors are well into the process of determining where they will attend college in the fall. One thing that will affect many of their... Read more.
Ohio and Alabama are playing ballot games with Biden
Patricia Lopez Call it political tit-for-tat. Election officials in Ohio and Alabama have warned President Joe Biden that he might be left off their ballots in November... Read more.
The four-day work week is decades away
Allison Schrager Billionaires and Bernie Sanders agree on at least one thing: They see a four-day work week in America’s future. Hedge fund manager Steve Cohen... Read more.
Trump hoped to sidestep the abortion issue. Arizona’s near-total ban shows why he can’t.
Mark Z. Barabak Donald Trump hoped to sidestep the abortion debate by suggesting he would turn the matter over to individual states, rather than having Congress... Read more.
Happy Tax Day. Are we getting our money’s worth?
Steven Hill Here comes Americans’ favorite day – April 15, Tax Day! In the land of “No taxation without representation,” we Americans throw a fit over how... Read more.
RFK Jr.’s candidacy is fueled by his name, not his qualifications
Carl P. Leubsdorf At a 1962 Massachusetts Senate debate, challenger Edward McCormack told his rival, the youthful future Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, that “if his... Read more.
President Joe Biden is at it again with student loan forgiveness
LZ Granderson Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that he couldn’t use the HEROES Act — passed after 9/11, just as the Iraq War was escalating — to forgive... Read more.
Two aspects of our nation’s original self-contradiction
Dave Anderson America struggles to this day with the reality that there is a striking contradiction at the heart of the founding of our country. The founding fathers... Read more.
Congress needs fixing, but it got some advice from an unexpected source
Bradford Fitch After watching President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, it would be easy to conclude that members of Congress have little interest in,... Read more.