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Austin Bay: Deep state and big debt: America’s self-inflicted strategic threat
The real killer: a Department of Government Efficiency post on X reported a total of $4.7 trillion worth of payments from the Treasury Department are “almost impossible” to trace because of missing account identification codes.
Froma Harrop: Why is Trump sabotaging the U.S. auto industry?
His tireless efforts to slow America’s shift to electricity-run transportation is a dream come true for China as it leads the world in that transition.
Rich Lowry: Europe deserves its humiliation
If Europe won’t spend more for the sake of its own security or the good of the alliance, it should — when its embarrassing panic subsides — at least do it out of self-respect.
Opinion: Welcoming spaces can help protect seniors against scams
A strong and understanding support system for older Mainers to talk with about their experiences with fraudsters could go a long way.
DEI is not the villain that Trump declares it to be
Their primary goal of DEI programs is to insure that workers comply with anti-discrimination laws, Elliott Epstein writes
Rich Lowry: The art of the manufactured crisis
There is no doubt that the administration is determined to exercise the maximum possible power over the federal bureaucracy, and it may, if it hasn’t already, overstep its bounds. Everything is being litigated as we speak, and the administration will surely win some and lose some.
Lew Alessio: The politics of funding AIDS
Ceasing funding for global AIDS prevention, education and treatment, as is being proposed, is not merely inhumane. It is immensely ignorant of the most basic understanding of the disease and its risks to all humanity that continue to this day.
Cal Thomas: Fraud by any other name
The reaction from the exposure and rooting out of fraud — mostly from Democrats — has been shouting profanities and demonstrating outside federal government buildings.
Froma Harrop: Trump clearly prefers billionaires to his base
Farm country provided Trump with some of his most fervent support. Farmers are now being tossed aside by Trump policies, none of which he seems interested in dialing back.