Froma Harrop: Deaths from not moving

Columns & Analysis

Published
February 19, 2022

Froma Harrop: Deaths from not moving

It's not always easy defining "the American way." Is it a life of hiking and yoga and kale salads for lunch? Or is it sitting all day at a desk, in a vehicle or in front of the TV, all the while downing nuggets and fries?
Published
February 19, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Two cheers for higher fuel prices

Europe uses taxation, but the American way mixes market and government incentive. That is happening with subsidies for solar and wind. Higher fuel prices can speed it up.
Published
February 18, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Is America a racist country?

There is not a single American field of endeavor — journalism, pro football, real estate, banking, politics, health, you name it — that is free of racial discrimination.
Published
February 18, 2022

Rich Lowry: Durham’s righteous investigation

The latest from Special Counsel John Durham is that a tech executive connected to the Clinton campaign mined internet contacts between Russia and the entities connected to Donald Trump in a search for material to try to, as Durham put it in a court filing last week, "establish 'an inference' and 'narrative' tying then-candidate Trump to Russia."
Published
February 17, 2022

Austin Bay: The strategic costs of Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian corruption

Hunter Biden's blatant corruption and hypocrisy had and still have real world strategic and national security costs. If defending Ukraine is a U.S. security interest, American participation in corruption undermines our security efforts. Hunter Biden was hindering Ukraine's warfighting and corruption-fighting effort.

Published
February 16, 2022

Cal Thomas: The Republican opportunity

The opportunity given to Republicans is for the party to focus not only on the bad and hope to eradicate it, but on the good that is taught in charter and private schools, allowing tax dollars to follow their children to the school of their choice.
Published
February 14, 2022

The Ottawa trucker convoy is rooted in Canada’s settler colonial history

The history of Canadian settler colonialism and public health demonstrates how both overt white-supremacist claims and seemingly more inert nationalistic claims about "unity" and "freedom" both enable and erase ongoing harm to marginalized communities.
Published
February 13, 2022

Cal Thomas: The power to ignore

The power to ignore is still the greatest power major media has, and few issues demonstrate that more than the trouble at our southern border.
Published
February 13, 2022

Joe Hall: Wabanakis and the state can work together

Maine says it wants better relationships with its Wabanaki neighbors. For that to happen, the state needs to recognize that Wabanakis have rights parallel to those of all other Native American peoples in the U.S.
Published
February 13, 2022

Froma Harrop: Democrats should seize the good news

Fabulous jobs numbers, a fading pandemic and a president doing his job with quiet competence should embolden Democrats to drop their funk and campaign furiously for the midterms. Ignore President Joe Biden's weak poll numbers. The good news should eventually wash over the gloom.

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