Catherine Rampell: Feel-good ideas need hardheaded examination
WASHINGTON — Extracting more money from evil, exploitative capitalists has become a rallying cry for much of the grass-roots left. In the meantime, though,...
Cal Thomas: Sanctuary cities vs. hideouts
In biblical times, a sanctuary city was a place where someone who had committed unintentional manslaughter could find refuge from “the avenger of blood.”...
Ruben Navarrette: Affirmative action has overstayed its welcome
SAN DIEGO — Color me surprised. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and I finally agree on something, albeit with radically different motives. It’s time to...
John M. Crisp: Citizens respond to the malady in the White House
Two years ago, my former governor, Rick Perry, called Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency a “cancer.” But this was during the primary season,...
George Will: The GOP’s Southern Gothic page-turner
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony. Consider the...
Amanda Knox: Michelle Carter deserves sympathy and help, not prison
Twenty-year-old Michelle Carter was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Thursday after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for her involvement in...
Lori Borgman: When a full staff adds up to 1
Someone called the other day and asked to speak to me. She was surprised when I said that it was me. Sounding disappointed, she...
Mark Figley: Losing the war on illegal opiods
In 2016, drug overdoses claimed nearly 60,000 lives in the United States; roughly the number of Americans that were killed in the Vietnam War....
Kathleen Parker: What the world needs now
WASHINGTON — Insidious is the force that causes us to dream of things we wish (or don’t wish) were so.Thus, on the eve of...
Cal Thomas: Wars and rumors of wars
One month after the election, President-elect Donald Trump made a “victory tour” of states that had helped deliver his surprise win.In Fayetteville, North Carolina,...
