Voters are entitled to honesty about these looming choices. Although they’re unlikely to get it, no one should be deceived about the true costs of campaign proposals.
Op-Eds
Elliott Epstein: Perhaps America could use some more ‘gibush’
Israel has an intense communal, can-do spirit that keeps the country united and its economy innovative
Clarence Page: Called upon to lie for Trump, JD Vance stumbled
For most of the night, the more polished and media savvy Sen. JD Vance seemed to be winning the debate, in my view. But when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz challenged him to say who won the 2020 election, Vance’s discomfort with his running mate’s growing web of half-truths, fabrications and outright lies seemed to show itself.
Froma Harrop: Warming comes for Florida’s economy
Florida is no stranger to the occasional big “blow,” but climate change may have completely rewritten the meteorological future, and it’s not sunny.
Ronald Lebel: What Maine voters need to know about Maine Democrats
Commonsense Mainers should think long and hard about whether this is the direction we should move our state.
Cal Thomas: Harris on ’60 Minutes’
Her answers are not likely to help her with the few voters who say they are still “undecided.”
Austin Bay: Helene’s Appalachian hell another FEMA failure?
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s latest display of inadequate planning and operational clumsiness suggests providing robust, seamless communications systems and coordinating air operations may be the most materially productive and politically wise use of the Department of Defense in natural disaster response.
Rich Lowry: The travesty of the CBP One app
Launched in 2020, CBP One was intended as a good-government, time-saving tool to manage the legitimate flow of people and goods at the border, but it’s now been twisted to launder illegal immigrants into the country.
Rich Lowry: Yes, Kamala Harris wants you out of your gas-powered car
There are good reasons that people prefer gas-powered cars, from convenience to reliability to cost. It may be that, over time, they come to embrace electric cars at the level the Biden-Harris administration deems appropriate, but that should be for the market to decide free of government impositions.
Rich Lowry: Dockworkers for economic stagnation
Our ports should be run for the benefit of all of us, and the wider economy, not for a union advancing a worldview that can only bring stagnation and mediocrity.