Clarence Page: Republicans seek strength in the GOP debate after Donald Trump’s indictments

Columns & Analysis

Published
September 1, 2023

Clarence Page: Republicans seek strength in the GOP debate after Donald Trump’s indictments

All eight candidates onstage seemed at least a bit off their game, as if they were filling in for the main event who didn’t show up, former President Donald Trump, who would be turning himself in to the Fulton County, Georgia, jail the next day after his fourth criminal indictment.
Published
August 31, 2023

Rich Lowry: Yes, President Harris is a legitimate issue

Kamala Harris is one of the most prominent people in the United States, with the potential that at any moment she could inherit some of the most fearsome powers on Earth, but no one is supposed to notice.
Published
August 30, 2023

Cal Thomas: Force-feeding ideology

Last week, a federal judge denied a request by parents of students in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Montgomery County, Maryland, to be able to remove their children from classrooms when books containing LGBTQ+ characters are read aloud.
Published
August 28, 2023

Haiti needs a new U.N. mission, this time led by the U.S.

There is no quick or easy fix to the challenges facing Haiti. But it is a neighbor in desperate need, and if the U.S. can lead an improved U.N. mission — this time with U.S. personnel — it would be in our interests to help Haiti get back on its feet.
Published
August 27, 2023

Froma Harrop: Where do we file Hunter Biden in our mindless politics?

I have no interest in either defending or condemning Hunter from a legal standpoint. He is now facing a special counsel investigation after a plea agreement on tax and gun charges fell apart. Let the wheels of justice roll. Let the legal authorities take it from here. If Hunter has been turning his life around, that's nice but not relevant.

Published
August 27, 2023

Austin Bay: War under 21st-century nuclear shadows: Ukraine, part 1

That a Russian nuclear shadow haunts the Ukraine War is a bitter wrong attributable to Western liberal end-of-history triumphalism.
Published
August 27, 2023

Cal Thomas: Nails on a chalkboard

Watching the video of President Biden’s remarks in Maui, his continuing confusion, his inappropriate jokes and attempts to identify with the pain Maui residents feel is painful in itself.
Published
August 27, 2023

Rich Lowry: Trump creates a spin-off

Vivek Ramaswamy is making history as the first presidential candidate to be in the tank for his leading opponent.
Published
August 26, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: What America has lost in 60 years

On Aug. 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people rallied at the Lincoln Memorial for the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” On Wednesday, eight Republicans who would be president debated in Milwaukee. One event displayed accountability, the other its absence.
Published
August 25, 2023

Froma Harrop: Must weddings lead to marriage?

Let couples throw lavish parties and often. If they want to attach some romance, they can make vows to go steady. That way, if they break up in a year, so what. Just keep the sacrament of marriage out of it.

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