It’s a particularly galling Biden rhetorical move to use the catastrophic failure of the Afghan forces that he helped bring about to insist that his decision to leave was the only responsible one. He’s gone from claiming we could safely leave because the Afghan security forces would do just fine on their own, to arguing we had no choice but to get out because they couldn’t manage without us.

Last week, the Census Bureau dropped a demographic bombshell. According to its 2020 count, the number of white people in this country has fallen for the first time since the first census in 1790.

President Joe Biden gave his withdrawal speech on April 14. There was time. Incompetent, arrogant and oblivious White House leadership compounded by obscenely bad interagency planning created the horror we witness and the slaughter to be.

The initial goal of America’s entry into Afghanistan was to defeat al-Qaida, which was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. That was fine as far as it went, but President Bush got distracted over an unnecessary conflict with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and then erred in believing he could nation-build in Afghanistan.

I believe that everyone who is able to should get vaccinated. What I don’t believe is that the government has the authority or power to force a citizen to inject a foreign object and drug into their bodies against their will.

It’s obvious that children of today’s immigrants who work, speak English and pay rent are more like the children of past immigration waves than different. Many Latinos may be browner than Americans with roots in Europe, but so what. Americans whose forebears came from southern Europe tend to be darker than those of northern European stock.

To prevent the Republicans’ wholesale attack on voting, we need specific provisions to override barriers to the ballot, not only for protections for early voting but also for nonpartisan redistricting. No one can honestly argue that there are 10 Republicans to do any of this.

Fauci is, in many ways, a perfect dog name. Two syllables that end on a happy “e!” sound make it an ideal moniker for beckoning, cuddling and, yes, reprimanding.