Rich Lowry: The IOC is a craven handmaid of Beijing

Columns & Analysis

Published
December 10, 2021

Rich Lowry: The IOC is a craven handmaid of Beijing

The International Olympic Committee has doggedly defended Beijing as the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, even as the Chinese Communist Party pursues its campaign of unrelenting barbarity against the Uyghurs.
Published
December 9, 2021

Austin Bay: China and Russia: The authoritarian-imperialist threat to world peace

Russia's early December troop movements along its Ukraine border and China's fall 2021 aerial and naval penetrations of Taiwanese territory are well-publicized displays of massed conventional armed forces poised to enter another nation's sovereign territory and wage war.
Published
December 8, 2021

Cal Thomas: The signs weren’t missed, they were ignored

As has been the case with so many other school shootings over several years, last week's murder spree at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit might have been avoided if actions had been taken in the face of several obvious warning signs.
Published
December 8, 2021

Froma Harrop: Socially deviant parents of school shooters

The central focus of the Michigan horror has rightly moved from a mentally ill high schooler to his socially deviant parents. Which leads to these two questions: Aren't parents who keep loaded weapons in a home shared by a disturbed child with violent obsessions themselves mentally twisted? And what could be done about them?
Published
December 7, 2021

Tina Riley: A chance to build Congress back better

We will find the path to restoring America’s strength on neither the right nor the left, but upward, by embracing the tenets that built our republic rather than the sound bites that are tearing it apart.

Published
December 6, 2021

A small pandemic upside: We don’t have to forgive public coughing

If we are to be honest with ourselves, few physical reflexes inflict a more distressing assault on our senses than a cough. The sundry sounds that a cough can produce — wheezy or hoarse, high-pitched or raspy, barking or crowing — are among the most irritating noises the human body can produce.
Published
December 6, 2021

Racially charged trials were less politically polarized in the past

Polarization of racial attitudes has accelerated over the last decade. By 2013, when George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in Florida after killing an unarmed Black teenager, the Republican-Democratic divide had grown to about 40 points: 61 percent of Republicans approved of the verdict in that case, compared with 22 percent of Democrats — a stark difference, but still well short of the nearly 70 percentage-point chasms we are seeing in the most recent high-profile cases.
Published
December 6, 2021

Trump’s failed Iran gamble was still worth it

Although the U.S. has largely declined to enforce sanctions against Iran's main economic lifeline, China, Biden has not lifted all of the secondary sanctions that Trump reinstated.
Published
December 5, 2021

Nick Murray: Latest drug pricing plan from Congress harms Maine patients

As part of the Build Back Better Act, congressional lawmakers are considering a measure that would impose price controls on branded prescription medicines. That would cripple the innovation that led to the creation of the COVID-19 vaccines — and prevent even more life-changing treatments and cures from ever reaching patients across Maine.
Published
December 5, 2021

Rev. Richard Killmer: Two Glasgow announcements could help protect grandchildren from facing major climate disasters

Both could help protect the world that our grandchildren will inhabit, by achieving the Paris climate agreement goals of keeping the rise in global warming under 1.5 degrees centigrade and achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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