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Columns & Analysis

Published
September 11, 2023

Make student loans work for students

The federal government can do even more. It can start by sharing its College Scorecard information, which shows completion rates by institution and major, with all applicants for student loans.
Published
September 11, 2023

Saving Medicare will never be easier than it is right now

When combined with the savings from overbilling, a modest 10% decrease in spending on new services could save $600 billion over the next 10 years. That's enough to cover the Medicare trust fund's deficit for the entire period.
Published
September 10, 2023

Austin Bay: Communist China deliberately escalates Asia’s lethal map wars

For two decades, Beijing has disdained legal borders and seized territory without consequence. Letting Beijing continue to get away with it will result in global disaster.
Published
September 10, 2023

Elliott Epstein: There is a way to legitimately take Trump off the ballot

A conviction on a charge that falls within the scope of the 14th Amendment could provide solid, objective grounds for state election officials to remove him from the ballot.
Published
September 10, 2023

Froma Harrop: Can AOC win back our love? Possibly

First she has to win back our respect. Democrats can't get things done unless they win elections.

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Published
September 10, 2023

Cal Thomas: Getting the Saudi-Israel formula wrong

Now that Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reverted to an old and failed formula, promoted by President Barack Obama and some of his predecessors, the Saudis apparently think they can appease their fellow Arabs by appearing to squeeze Israel into making new concessions.
Published
September 10, 2023

Rich Lowry: The electric car sham

Electric vehicles should be considered a nice, promising addition to the variety of the car market, not a quasi-holy obligation to be pursued at all costs.
Published
September 9, 2023

Vanessa Paolella: A tale of two sales

I imagine the Times-Tribune will soon look a lot like the Sun Journal would without Russ Dillingham, Mark LaFlamme, Donna Perry or the many other longtime staff members who've made our paper what it is.
Published
September 9, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: To what do we pledge our allegiance?

As a Boy Scout, I sometimes wondered why we pledged allegiance to the flag ahead of even the republic. Then as now, I thought the republic more important than any of its symbols.
Published
September 8, 2023

Rich Lowry: No, we aren’t Rome

By all means, study the history of Rome for its own sake and for the insights it affords into human nature and the roots of the Western world. But the moral of the story needn't be about 21st-century America.