TEXAS VIEW: Texas teachers deserve fair Social Security benefits
Imagine you’re a recently retired teacher in Texas. You spent your career earning a lower salary than most of your fellow teachers across the...
ELDER: Random musings; random sarcasm
Elon Musk conducted a Twitter poll to ask whether he should reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account. The poll received 15,085,458 votes — and...
NATIONAL VIEW: Student loans: Biden’s eternal emergency
The Biden Administration on Tuesday, Nov. 22, canceled tens of billions of more dollars in student debt on the sly by extending its payment...
SULLUM: Prosecuting Julian Assange poses grave threat to freedom of the press
“Publishing is not a crime,” the editors and publishers of The New York Times and four leading European news outlets say in an open...
NATIONAL VIEW: How the Supreme Court can start to regain Americans’ trust in its...
Once again, the Supreme Court is finding its ethics under scrutiny. Recently, Justice Clarence Thomas declined to recuse himself in a case involving the...
GUEST VIEW: The GOP’s Hunter Biden probe is legit
By David Harsanyi
As a tactical concern, the House GOP’s decision to open an investigation into Biden family corruption is questionable. It promises limited political return....
TEXAS VIEW: GOP misread the Latino vote in South Texas
The Texas GOP expected big wins with Latino voters in the midterm elections. Instead, they lost two out of three key congressional races in...
PROBLEM SOLVED: My Lowe’s extended protection plan doesn’t work. Can you fix my dishwasher?
By Christopher Elliott
Joy Wills’ dishwasher doesn’t work. Her extended protection plan purchased through Lowe’s isn’t working, either. It’s been six months — will she...
GUEST VIEW: It’s up to you to see the good happening around you
By Bonnie Jean Feldkamp
In traffic downtown, the man next to me wanted to get over in my lane. I slowed up a little and let him in....
WORLD VIEW: Cop27: A real achievement, but too far to go
The Cop process often seems to encapsulate the broader global reaction to climate breakdown. Leaders make grand but vague pledges of action; fossil fuel...