Bill Press: Yes, I’m woke — and proud of it!

As Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) advises: "We have a moral obligation to "stay woke," take a stand and be active, challenging injustices and racism in our communities and fighting hatred and discrimination wherever it rises." We can never be "woke" enough.

Rich Lowry: Ending Title 42 would exacerbate the border crisis

The U.S. teeters on the brink of a complete meltdown at the border, and yet the Biden administration is still consumed with blame-shifting and evasions.

What child poverty in America really looked like in 2022

Running shoes. A sketchbook. Summer camp. The lack of those basic things is what child poverty in America looked like in 2022.

2022 saw conservative gains on education issues. But they may be short-lived.

The Founding Fathers — as well as the founding mothers and their children — agreed that any truly public school could not be run by a church for religious reasons. They believed that a public school had to be something that promoted purely public purposes.

Elliott Epstein: This will be the year that Donald Trump becomes politically irrelevant

Trumpism is going to suffer the same fate as McCarthyism.

Paul Mills: Some of the famous and not so famous who left us in 2022

Rich Lowry: Beware aggrieved empires

It's no accident that the two most dangerous powers in the world, China and Russia, are aggrieved empires seeking to right what they consider the wrongs that resulted in their humiliation and diminishment in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Austin Bay: The year Putin’s imperial dream became a nightmare of destruction

As 2022 becomes 2023: Russian forces are demoralized, Russian leaders have run out of ideas, and despite "peace feeler" headlines, the Ukrainians are not inclined to trust Russian peace deals.

Cal Thomas: An old debt carries over to a new year

It used to be said we would be passing on the debt to future generations if the spending doesn't stop. It could now be said that there might not be future generations of Americans as we have known them if it doesn't stop.

Jeanne Gore, Yaicha Provencher and Joe Pickering Jr.: Gabe Damour’s death was the worst nightmare come true for families like ours