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Published
September 24, 2023

Austin Bay: Taiwan arms for war — if deterrence fails

If Taiwan becomes a concrete porcupine — with trained soldiers, modern weapons and reinforced bunkers supported by air and sea assets delivering sea mines and missile strikes — Beijing will never take the island.
Published
September 24, 2023

Clarence Page: MAGA was only the beginning of Mitt Romney’s worries

“A very large portion of my party,” Romney tells McKay Coppins of The Atlantic, “really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.” That’s why he spends $5,000 a day since the insurrection on private security for his family, Romney said.
Published
September 24, 2023

Cal Thomas: British to be forced to drive electric

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, after first announcing a mandate requiring all fossil fueled vehicles sold in the UK after 2030 to be electric, succumbed to pressure from the Conservative Party and within his own government and announced Wednesday a delay until 2035. His goal remains net zero by 2050.
Published
September 24, 2023

Froma Harrop: If she said, he should also be able to say

In 2018, Yale University held a disciplinary hearing at which a female student told her story of allegedly being raped after a Halloween party but couldn't be questioned back.
Published
September 23, 2023

Clarence Page: Yes, Black parents like school choice too

It has become a grand tradition in journalism and politics to uncover a high-profile official who is responsible for public schools, yet — oops! — puts their own offspring in a private school.

Published
September 23, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Strong words from north of the border

Justin Trudeau has been wracked by scandals, many minor but cumulatively evidence that he is not so smooth an operator as his late father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada’s third-longest-serving PM.
Published
September 22, 2023

Froma Harrop: What about Gina Raimondo?

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo playing co-pilot with President Biden would offer Democrats a truly powerful ticket in 2024. She belongs at the front of the line of potential new running mates.
Published
September 21, 2023

Cal Thomas: Sex and the city: Political edition

The Republican Party, the party that for years has styled itself as the party of “family values” and “traditional marriage” has lost all credibility on these issues.
Published
September 18, 2023

Striking UAW can’t bring back the 1950s or wish EVs away

The solution to the U.S. backlash against Japanese vehicle imports was ultimately for the likes of Honda to simply build the cars here. The IRA's subsidies are designed to encourage this, if politics allow.
Published
September 18, 2023

America can take care of our poorest children. We just don’t want to.

When COVID threatened the already janky network of child-care centers available to parents, the nation finally stepped into action and expanded benefits to child-care centers. It worked.

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