Froma Harrop: Omicron should not dim our lights

Columns & Analysis

Published
December 26, 2021

Froma Harrop: Omicron should not dim our lights

Yes, they will have to deal with new strains on hospitals and their workers. But they will be sending the wrong message if they let the unvaccinated spoil another year for those who've done the right things. For most of us, Omicron remains a concern but not a good reason to dim the lights this holiday season.
Published
December 26, 2021

Mary Sanchez: Of tornadoes, changing science and twisted politics

Simply become more thoughtful. Not conspiracy laden in the face of tragedy, not pitched toward a narrative that favors a political team. But simply seek to be informed with the most accurate information available at the time and remain open to the reality that this too, could shift.
Published
December 24, 2021

Austin Bay: Aunt Lillian’s timely grace

Her grace expressed appreciation for the meal and recognized the value of everyone — "us" and "them." May God bless those at the table, family elsewhere, but ultimately all human beings.
Published
December 24, 2021

Jesse Jackson: American democracy is under siege

As we saw after the Civil War, a minority party enforcing minority rule can succeed only with violence. The Jan. 6 sacking of the Capitol is but a prelude. The officials who refused to endorse Trump's Big Lie have been deluged with threats of violence both to them and their families. Rigged elections that ensconce a minority will have less and less legitimacy.
Published
December 24, 2021

Bob Neal: The Countryman: ‘Tis the season for hope, maybe?

In these first three days of winter, we've added just a minute between sunrise and sunset, but we've added. Hope glimmers in every bleak mid-winter, even if faintly.

Published
December 23, 2021

Rich Lowry: The high-water mark of Biden-era progressivism

It dominates the media, academia and almost all the rest of elite culture. At the same time, Democrats still control the elected branches of government in Washington. But a growing backlash against progressive excess has found expression in two notable acts of Democratic defiance.
Published
December 22, 2021

Cal Thomas: Building the wall back better

More than $100 million of taxpayer money was spent on materials intended for the border wall during the Trump administration. They should be made available to Gov. Abbott, but the Biden administration won't allow it. President Biden canceled contracts for its construction after entering office last January.
Published
December 20, 2021

The danger of seeking compromise on voting rights

Although 19th-century parties were more fluid and the idea of bipartisanship did not exist, many moderates who served in the period before the Civil War were similarly concerned with forging national compromise — not among parties, per se, but between the slave states of the South and the nonslaveholding states of the North.
Published
December 20, 2021

FedEx finds if you pay them, they will come

The company has hired more than 60,000 frontline workers since mid-September. Higher wage rates and network disruptions tied to labor shortages resulted in $470 million in additional costs in the three months ended Nov. 30, but the company expects those cost pressures to moderate in the second half of its fiscal year.
Published
December 19, 2021

Rich Lowry: No, inflation is not a corporate conspiracy

All the hokum about the causes of inflation is basically a confession of impotence. If the Biden administration had a good story to tell about how it's fixing inflation, it wouldn't need to create cartoon villains.

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