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Columns & Analysis

Published
January 22, 2023

Froma Harrop: Population shouldn’t be a Ponzi scheme

The idea that prosperity must rely on strong population growth is greatly exaggerated. At bottom, it's a kind of demographic Ponzi scheme, whereby the success of a society is fostered by an ever-larger younger generation supporting the smaller one before.
Published
January 22, 2023

Cal Thomas: The other side of fame

Once you have attained fame you can never live as normal people do. Strangers want to approach you, some with good motives, some bad. The famous need security, locked gates, unlisted telephone numbers and people around to protect them and feed their egos.
Published
January 22, 2023

Rich Lowry: The Trump-Biden embrace

Despite their enmity, both men want and need each other politically, whether that's what the country is interested in or deserves, or not.
Published
January 21, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Biden: Two years and counting

Today is the 731st, or middle, day of Biden’s 1,431-day term, an apt day for assessment. The word that comes to mind is mixed.
Published
January 21, 2023

Rich Lowry: No, you can’t believe ‘the science’

This faux science is not dispassionate but fired by a great moral certainty. It is not open to counter arguments and different interpretations but insists on only one answer to complicated or ambiguous questions. It is not rigorously neutral but aims to achieve cherished political goals.

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Published
January 20, 2023

Froma Harrop: Egg prices are already cracking

Now, news on the tab for common consumer staples like eggs, gasoline and Thanksgiving turkeys draws attention and allows the creation of easy-to-make visuals. But so many of the headlines on the cost of eggs bang on the percentage rise in price while not mentioning the actual price.
Published
January 20, 2023

Rich Lowry: How Chip Roy won the speaker fight

Rep. Chip Roy's profile and influence grew during the standoff, and he'll play a key role in the contentions to come.
Published
January 18, 2023

Cal Thomas: China threat not only to Taiwan

While the U.S. has seemed fixated on China's growing verbal threats and military maneuvers around Taiwan, Gen. Mark Milley and others, including some in Australia, are concerned that China's expansionist goals do not end with attempts to take over that free island nation.
Published
January 16, 2023

In travel chaos, flight crews also suffer and still get blamed

For decades, flight crews have been trying to bargain for better working conditions, for pay that starts when the job starts — not when the airplane doors close, for investment in staffing and infrastructure, for more-predictable schedules.
Published
January 16, 2023

U.S. banks have millions of consumers to thank

The benefit of lending more as interest rates rise is booming revenue: JPMorgan and Wells Fargo both reported near 50% growth in net interest income for the fourth quarter over the prior year.