Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sen. Bill Cassidy still doesn’t know what hit him

“About a third of our population is African American,” he said. “African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality. So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear. Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be.”

Cal Thomas: Theology, politics and abortion

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who invokes her faith when it comes to "climate change," recently claimed Catholic opinion about abortion goes back only a few hundred years and theologians have been divided over many centuries. This brought a rebuke from several Catholic prelates, who said the Catholic Catechism has remained consistent on human life since the first century.

U.S. should follow the EU model for baby formula

Not only is the U.S. infant formula industry — aka "Big Bottle" — heavily dominated by three aging brands, only seven production facilities have been approved by the FDA to manufacture all the powdered and liquid formulas sold nationwide.

Declining birth rates are unhealthy for hospitals and society

Austin Bay: America’s next wars: Lose one, hold one?

According to Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations ... the current fleet of about 298 ships "is not sized to handle two simultaneous conflicts." The Navy is "sized to fight one and keep a second adversary in check, but in terms of two all-out conflicts, we are not sized for that."

Cal Thomas: The law and racism

Covering stories that show people at their worst while mostly ignoring them at their best is racism and contributes to negative stereotypes and perceptions. It would also help if more Republican leaders and conservatives were seen as denouncing racist ideology. I do.

Froma Harrop: Dress codes are about respect, not money

Dress standards for deluxe dining started collapsing decades ago, but the pandemic pounded them further. With the health crisis receding, high-end restaurants are looking for a reset by establishing (or restoring) rules for dress.

Hajna Nagy: Who’s really in the trap? How new regulations meant to save right whales are hurting Maine’s lobster industry

The lobster industry is Maine’s economic engine, supporting the men and women who fish as well as entire coastal communities. Imposing these restrictions limits their catch, not only taking away the opportunity for catch, but making it harder in the process.

Rich Lowry: Don’t be penny-wise on Ukraine

"Paris is worth a Mass," Henry of Navarre supposedly said before converting to Roman Catholicism and becoming king of France in the 16th century. Similarly, staving off Russia, and perhaps defeating it without firing a shot, is worth $40 billion.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Republican Party stands for the Republican Party

The GOP has pioneered a dangerous conceit: that high office, once held to be the proper province of the serious, the learned and the prepared, has now been democratized till it can be fulfilled by any unremarkable twit with the gumption to seek it and the ability to convince the average Joe or Jane that ignorance, immaturity, hostility toward liberal values and lack of impulse control constitute authenticity.