Froma Harrop: Family interests do not belong in public affairs

Columns & Analysis

Published
April 3, 2022

Froma Harrop: Family interests do not belong in public affairs

Sometimes the chosen kin or friend's kin has fine qualifications. But the sense that their inside track gives them advantages over others with equally fine qualifications leaves a bad taste. It's also un-American.
Published
April 3, 2022

Cal Thomas: Walk forward better

It is now up to Republicans. They should not just point out the obvious failures of the Biden presidency, but propose solutions that will reverse disastrous foreign and domestic policies. Maybe they could call it "walk forward better."
Published
April 3, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Getting America to do right by Americans of color

No one can give justice to the 4,743 men and women Congress failed. Any meaningful chance to do so long ago turned to dust. Yes, people of color still suffer racially motivated killings, and this bill (the Emmett Till Antilynching Act) provides a new tool to hold perpetrators accountable. That’s an undeniably good thing.
Published
April 2, 2022

Froma Harrop: From heroics to histrionics, Americans are dragged

It says something about the shallowness of our national life that the specter of World War III couldn't keep the Washington clown show out of our field of vision. Americans were again dragged from heroics to histrionics. Will we never be liberated from these humiliating split screens?
Published
April 2, 2022

Austin Bay: Ukraine’s warrior state a fact

All told, the Ukrainians' collective bravery and the tactical actions of their fighting forces have exposed major tactical, operational and logistical deficiencies in Russia's army and air force and — big deal — grievous strategic miscalculations by Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin cronies.

Published
April 1, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Slap

We men are good at hitting problems. It makes us feel manly. That’s why, from the Kremlin to Mar-a-Lago to the Academy Awards, there are few things more unpredictable — or dangerous — than a man who feels pressed to vindicate his manhood. The weaker the man, the greater the need and the vaster the collateral damage.
Published
April 1, 2022

Rich Lowry: It’s the inflation, stupid

Joe Biden is engaged in the most extensive test of whether an American president can survive elevated levels of inflation since Jimmy Carter, and it's not going well.
Published
March 31, 2022

Cal Thomas: JFK, Reagan and Biden

The BBC reports an estimated 200,000 Russians have left their country since the start of the war, a significant "brain drain." Those who have stayed should heed President Biden's call to remove Putin from power by whatever means necessary. I think Kennedy and Reagan might have approved of such a goal.
Published
March 30, 2022

Noël Bonam: LD 318 needs to be examined closely to avoid unintended consequences

Unfortunately, in its current form LD 318 does not work in favor of electric customers and Maine’s ratepayers. The bill needs to include consumer protections that are written by regulators, not the retail electric industry.
Published
March 28, 2022

Abraham Lincoln’s political instincts offer a blueprint for Biden

Present-day America is bitterly divided — but Lincoln's time was divided, too. As with Biden, political and legislative realities constrained Lincoln. But Lincoln's ability to successfully wield gradualism and build to bigger achievements offers a possible method for overcoming divisions today.

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