NATIONAL VIEW: Haiti needs Washington’s help to exit its quagmire
Haiti passed a grim milestone in February, when the traditional presidential inauguration day came and went with no president taking the oath of office,...
NATIONAL VIEW: Injecting some insulin reality
The House moved recently to cap the cost of insulin, and Democrats think they’ve found a winner to save seats in November. What ghoul...
NATIONAL VIEW: Biden’s new agenda: Insufficient, incomplete … and pretty good
“Don’t tell me what you value,” President Biden has said for years. “Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” The...
NATIONAL VIEW: Pretending the pandemic is over will not make it so
The worst of the COVID-19 pandemic may be behind us, but pretending that it is over will not make it so. A new Omicron...
NATIONAL VIEW: The president we have
More or less the whole world—including his own advisers on background—has criticized President Biden for his latest gaffe in saying in his Warsaw speech...
NATIONAL VIEW: Ketanji Brown Jackson’s unflappable brilliance seals the deal
Americans who followed the four-day confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson last week were treated to a rare display of brilliance,...
NATIONAL VIEW: Make Congress show up to vote again
Most Americans have resumed something close to normal life after COVID-19, but not the U.S. House of Representatives. Many lawmakers have become accustomed to...
NATIONAL VIEW: The Supreme Court has declared open season on constitutional rights
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday, Mar. 11, effectively extinguished a lawsuit challenging the state’s antiabortion law, all but ensuring that Texas’s extreme restrictions...
NATIONAL VIEW: A question for President Biden on oil and gas
Every so often President Biden makes himself available to the press to ask a question—when he’s not walking to or from a helicopter—and we...
NATIONAL VIEW: Climate catastrophe is already here
A new United Nations report blares dire warnings of the escalating effects of climate change: Our planet is no longer on the brink of...