NATIONAL VIEW: Congress used to care about the ‘dreamers’
Congress’s border deal talks might be ongoing, but in one essential area, legislators are moving backward: The ‘dreamers,’ undocumented immigrants who came to this...
NATIONAL VIEW: The dementia crisis is here. Better training can’t wait
The number of Americans over the age of 65 is rising quickly. In the past century, it has grown at nearly five times the...
NATIONAL VIEW: Biden’s drug-price boomerang
President Biden keeps trying to persuade Americans his policies are helping them, but voters aren’t buying it. The latest example is the Inflation Reduction...
NATIONAL VIEW: Republicans have one thing right about the border
Many, including us, had high hopes. But last fiscal year’s 3.2 million “encounters” with migrants — occurring either at official entry points or, more...
NATIONAL VIEW: When lawmakers should be expelled, censured or reprimanded
Ideally, a House member credibly accused of as much cartoonish criminality as Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) would resign, if only to spare himself the...
NATIONAL VIEW: A five-alarm Biden re-election fire
Public-opinion polls are a snapshot in time, and results can change quickly in politics as events intrude. But the polls have been sending Democrats...
NATIONAL VIEW: Maine shooting suspect fits the profile
Robert Card, the suspected killer of at least 18 people in shootings at a bowling alley and a restaurant Wednesday, Oct. 25, in Lewiston,...
NATIONAL VIEW: Sayonara, for-profit colleges
We laughed out loud when The New York Times quoted professor Kate Shaw asking if the Supreme Court will “continue to incapacitate” the administrative...
NATIONAL VIEW: A case of tax fraud — at the IRS
The Internal Revenue Service makes clear that taxpayers who willfully conceal or alter tax documents risk severe penalties. But what happens when government auditors...
NATIONAL VIEW: A union railroad job in Congress
It pays to be wary of politicians rushing out legislation after an accident or disaster, and the Railway Safety Act is a classic of...