Froma Harrop: High gas prices do not stop traffic

It could be that Americans, driven by pent-up demand for post-pandemic travel, are just willing to dig deeper into their funds to keep the tank filled. It could it be that they are driving more fuel-efficient vehicles and thus buying fewer gallons of gas to begin with. It could be that the "record-high price of gas" we keep hearing about is not actually a record high.

Rich Lowry: The GOP needs to get beyond 2020

If Donald Trump is the Republican candidate again in 2024, even in the unlikely event that he wanted to memory hole Jan. 6, it wouldn't happen. The Democrats would bring it up unrelentingly. Perhaps it wouldn't work, but why would Republicans want to risk it or even deal with the complication?

Teachers have learned to work for low pay and little respect

Austin Bay: Will China soon claim the western Pacific?

If communist China's recent words and deeds reflect a calculated design and totalitarian intent, soon we will hear Beijing declare the entire western Pacific Ocean a sovereign Chinese sea, where Beijing rules — so-called international laws, treaties and U.N. resolutions be damned.

Cal Thomas: Lock HIM up?

If the House January 6 committee proceeds to its seemingly predetermined conclusion that Donald Trump incited the Capitol riot and tried to reverse the results of the 2020 election, and if they recommend to the Department of Justice that Trump committed criminal acts and should be prosecuted, President Biden will face a serious choice.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: No reason brown girls can’t save the world

Suffice it to say, some of us hate it when the invisible become visible. But if you have ever been invisible, you know there are few things more empowering than to be seen.

Froma Harrop: Electric vehicles need only a gentle push

Federal programs that mean well and could do some good simply need finer tuning. That means pulling back the reins on rules that poorly fit large parts of America.

Sgt. Jason Moore: Brother Down: Lifesaving act continues to pay dividends decades later

I was left alone in that parking lot with Chad’s empty cruiser and the red Firebird he had stopped. If asked how long I remained there I would swear that it had been several hours, when in actuality it was probably 20 minutes. Looking back, those minutes were some of the longest in my life.

Rich Lowry: The Kamala Harris problem

Kamala Harris is the single best argument for Democrats trying to prop up Joe Biden no matter what. She has been a disaster as vice president, even as she's done nothing particularly noteworthy either good or bad. She's simply a political black hole, whose abysmal ratings reflect not just Biden's troubles but her own profound, inherent flaws as a political figure.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Everybody plays the fool

Donald Trump doesn’t love you. He is a con man from Queens who cares about nothing that doesn’t line his pockets or fatten his ego. Hundreds of you are now imprisoned or facing indictment because of him. And he’s taken you for a quarter of a billion dollars, besides. But sure, you go right on believing in him. Everybody plays the fool.