Froma Harrop: Washington puts its chips on chips

Computer chips are the little brains that run appliances, airplanes, mobile phones and cars. You can't have a modern economy without them.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: This is not about immigration

It’s about cruelty as political stratagem. After all, if you solve a problem, you can no longer exploit it. But leave it unsolved and you can use it to rub raw the emotions of your target audience — e.g., white people terrified at the browning of America — and stampede them to the polls.

Cal Thomas: Immigration and roosting chickens

The saying "the chickens have come home to roost" seems to apply to the immigration policies of the Biden Administration, sanctuary cities and states.

Climate disaster isn’t a game. When will the U.S. stop playing?

For the many stakeholders who find climate issues too removed from their own experiences to worry about, or too inconvenient to worry about when there are corporate profit margins to consider, this global crisis will remain merely a game — until it's far too late for any of us to win.

We once had a law to defend human attention. It’s time for an update.

Froma Harrop: Republicans are stuck with their assault on abortion

The senator from South Carolina [Lindsey Graham] has been reading the polls, clearly. After decades of railing against abortion and populating the U.S. Supreme Court with justices eager to ditch a right to an abortion, Republicans like him are discovering that the broader public never signed up for losing that option.

Cal Thomas: Another Irish exodus

A survey by the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) has found "seven-in-10 young people, ages 18-24 are considering moving abroad for a better life. ... Inflation is at its highest since 1984 ... and mortgage rates are set to rise for the first time in 11 years." The Irish Times reports 10,568 people, including 3,137 children, "are now categorised as homeless in the Republic."

Austin Bay: Let’s field weapons to defeat China’s Pacific strategy

China's threat has no one single answer. The H96, however, definitely complicates China's war plans built on defeating big carriers and static bases.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: What do the book banners and burners fear?

If you can’t read freely, how can you ever live freely?

Rich Lowry: Senate Republicans run and hide on abortion

If Republicans truly believe that they can't defend a 15-week ban, maybe they are right to find any excuse to try not to talk about abortion. But that path leads, ultimately, to implicit surrender.