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Columns & Analysis

Published
January 9, 2023

Veterans’ demands can improve access for everyone

Looking back to early American veterans' demands for access to federal services reveals how individuals who served their country have consistently advocated for themselves and their comrades. Further, when those in power listen and respond, the result can be creative solutions that not only benefit veterans but Americans more broadly.
Published
January 9, 2023

Always racing to meetings? It’s slowing you down

When meeting excess is a symptom of other problems, simply asking people to meet less often is unlikely to work. I've experienced this firsthand.
Published
January 8, 2023

Austin Bay: 2023’s strategic challenges: Introducing big debt

Communist China threatens the world. That said, America's own structural debt is the biggest self-inflicted threat the U.S. faces.
Published
January 8, 2023

Cal Thomas: Where have all the intellectuals gone?

How do we get them back? By starting in the schools with real ideas and concepts being taught by non-woke teachers, or in private schools, or the growing home school movement. Have students read the classics, the Constitution and Federalist Papers, instead of books promoting various cultural fads and political agendas.
Published
January 8, 2023

Rich Lowry: The GOP is the self-loathing party

The fact is that an anti-authority spirit pervades a portion of the party, and the authority it opposes is that of its own side.

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Published
January 8, 2023

Bill Press: Burning down the House

A work in progress: the destruction of the House of Representatives as a serious, credible, legislative body — unraveling in the context of this week's embarrassing attempt by House Republicans to elect a new speaker.
Published
January 7, 2023

Rich Lowry: ‘Yellowstone’ is not a show about race

In a culture that relentlessly boosts college degrees and other credentials, "Yellowstone" at its best is an oasis of a different way of looking at accomplishment and value.
Published
January 7, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The usefulness of redundancy

Have more than you need so that when everything goes south, you can adjust.
Published
January 6, 2023

Froma Harrop: Did Joe Biden ‘shut down’ American energy? Hardly

In Louisiana, a gallon of regular now averages $2.90. This reality may be spied in the prices hanging outside Baton Rouge gas stations. And if we're not mistaken, Biden is still president.
Published
January 4, 2023

Cal Thomas: A new year, but nothing new

Looking back 100 years, at least two things are clear: While leaders and events may change, human nature never changes.