Columns & Analysis
  • Published
    August 28, 2023

    Haiti needs a new U.N. mission, this time led by the U.S.

    There is no quick or easy fix to the challenges facing Haiti. But it is a neighbor in desperate need, and if the U.S. can lead an improved U.N. mission — this time with U.S. personnel — it would be in our interests to help Haiti get back on its feet.

  • Published
    August 27, 2023

    Froma Harrop: Where do we file Hunter Biden in our mindless politics?

    I have no interest in either defending or condemning Hunter from a legal standpoint. He is now facing a special counsel investigation after a plea agreement on tax and gun charges fell apart. Let the wheels of justice roll. Let the legal authorities take it from here. If Hunter has been turning his life around, that's nice but not relevant.

  • Published
    August 27, 2023

    Austin Bay: War under 21st-century nuclear shadows: Ukraine, part 1

    That a Russian nuclear shadow haunts the Ukraine War is a bitter wrong attributable to Western liberal end-of-history triumphalism.

  • Published
    August 27, 2023

    Cal Thomas: Nails on a chalkboard

    Watching the video of President Biden’s remarks in Maui, his continuing confusion, his inappropriate jokes and attempts to identify with the pain Maui residents feel is painful in itself.

  • Published
    August 27, 2023

    Rich Lowry: Trump creates a spin-off

    Vivek Ramaswamy is making history as the first presidential candidate to be in the tank for his leading opponent.

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  • Published
    August 26, 2023

    Bob Neal: The Countryman: What America has lost in 60 years

    On Aug. 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people rallied at the Lincoln Memorial for the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” On Wednesday, eight Republicans who would be president debated in Milwaukee. One event displayed accountability, the other its absence.

  • Published
    August 25, 2023

    Froma Harrop: Must weddings lead to marriage?

    Let couples throw lavish parties and often. If they want to attach some romance, they can make vows to go steady. That way, if they break up in a year, so what. Just keep the sacrament of marriage out of it.

  • Published
    August 24, 2023

    Rich Lowry: The GOP race is not quite as over as it looks

    Iowa can break late. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who won Iowa in 2012, didn't really start moving until late December. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won four years earlier, started his upward march around November. If someone is going to replicate this kind of climb, the big upward move may still be months away.

  • Published
    August 23, 2023

    Cal Thomas: Questions I would ask the GOP candidates

    Wednesday night (Aug. 23)’s GOP primary debate in Milwaukee for the Republican candidates for the presidency will be more a Q&A session than a classic debate, but that’s OK. Viewers will have a chance to take the measure of the men — and woman — who wish to become president.

  • Published
    August 21, 2023

    Trump and Bankman-Fried face speech limits as criminal defendants

    Witness tampering and obstruction count as a dangers to the community — either can result in bail being denied or revoked. It's illegal to interfere with testimony or other aspects of the trial.