National View

The COVID-19 crisis isn’t over, and we shouldn’t act as if it is. Yes, yes, we’re tired of masks and social distancing. Crowds at the...

Internal Revenue Service data obtained by ProPublica and published recently shows in black and white just how rigged toward the rich the U.S. tax...

Not long after former Gov. Jerry Brown announced the end of a grueling six-year drought in 2017, the Legislature passed two controversial water-efficiency laws...

Businesses nearly everywhere in America say they’re desperate for workers, and the latest statistical evidence is the Labor Department’s Jolts report last Tuesday of...

You can almost see these words in a gunmaker’s advertising brochure: “Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination...

“We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know and not what we should know,” President Joe Biden said last Tuesday from...

Every American has one representative in Congress and two senators, who are elected to look out for their interests in the national government. Every American,...

Some of the defendants facing charges in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol deserve points for creativity. Among the defense arguments emerging...

As the Texas legislative session drew near its end Sunday, lawmakers appeared set to pass a bill overhauling the state’s elections, until Democrats did...

Pop quiz: When is it a bad idea for the Texas Legislature to take action on an issue? A. When the matter involves local spending...