Rich Lowry: No, DeSantis isn’t worse than Trump

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Published
July 10, 2022

Rich Lowry: No, DeSantis isn’t worse than Trump

Even if you take the dimmest view of all that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has done — from battling COVID mandates to trying to keep woke instruction out of schools to pushing new congressional lines favorable to Republicans — it makes him a sharp-elbowed partisan with mistaken priorities, not a clear and present danger to American democracy. None of it is remotely comparable to Donald Trump's post-election conduct.
Published
July 9, 2022

Froma Harrop: Democrats don’t have to be dumb

Democrats ... continue to mismatch the intelligence of the voters and their economic messaging. Accusing the Fed of a crime it has yet to commit — or gas stations of price-gouging — is dumb politics, and doubly so as their prospects improve.
Published
July 9, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: What is wrong with American men?

Everyone has bad days. Everyone gets their feelings hurt. Everyone grapples with life not going according to plan. Only American men seem to routinely take this as an excuse to shoot up churches and schools.
Published
July 7, 2022

Rich Lowry: Biden’s shameful gas-station attack

Biden took to Twitter to urge "the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump" to heed his message: "Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you're paying for the product."
Published
July 7, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Just a different kind of rape

After years of openly flouting the law, high-profile offenders may, given sufficient media pressure and public attention, be held to account. Repeat: may. If your case doesn’t fall within those parameters, tough luck; you’re very likely to watch helplessly as your attacker goes unpunished. And you might be forgiven for thinking that doesn’t feel much like justice at all.

Published
July 6, 2022

Cal Thomas: It’s not easy being green

Technology should precede ideology, not the reverse. The Biden administration and its green allies want to force us into electric cars before most people can afford them and before they become as practical and convenient as gas-powered cars.
Published
July 5, 2022

The value of looking forward as we mark America’s next big birthday

As much as it is important to use the observance to reevaluate our understanding of the past, we must do so in a way that foregrounds the future, as well.
Published
July 4, 2022

Mass surveillance in schools won’t solve mass shootings

In the wake of a steady increase of school shootings in the United States, schools are eager to find ways to better protect their students, even as overall incidents of violence have dropped in the last two decades. But the steps they are taking risk reinforcing an unhealthy culture of surveillance without actually preventing violence.
Published
July 4, 2022

How to fix the U.S. labor shortage? Provide decent child care.

High-quality, affordable child care aids child development, acts as an anti-poverty measure and supports family stability. Particularly in this inflationary season, child-care costs that are outpacing average inflation are vacuuming up funds that otherwise could go to offset higher gas and food prices, to say nothing of helping families get ahead.
Published
July 3, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Republicans, don’t you want to be free?

How many years has it been since each of you was your own man or woman, unfettered by the burden of lies, alibis and pretending not to see?

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