We need to “slow the wheels down,” making clearer judgments about how we live personally and organize as a society.
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Hope Pollard: Sen. King must reject Labor Board nominee to protect Maine businesses and workers
By voting against Lauren McFerran’s nomination, Sen. Angus King would be supporting a fair labor environment where all businesses in Maine can compete equally, and workers can exercise their rights without undue interference from partisan government bureaucrats.
Froma Harrop: Biden’s economy is superior in just about every way
Should Donald Trump be elected, we will be looking back at the Biden years as a golden time for the economy and wonder how we lost it.
Cal Thomas: Tone down the rhetoric
Unity is going to take more than statements and “thoughts and prayers” to bring us together. It requires action by all of us.
Cal Thomas: What Trump should say Thursday night
When Donald Trump takes the stage Thursday night and accepts for the third time the Republican Party’s nomination for president, he faces an opportunity and a temptation.
Elliott Epstein: We shouldn’t be OK with another Trump presidency
Our democracy may not be strong enough to survive four years of Donald Trump’s authoritarian ambitions.
Froma Harrop: Trump can’t undo the damage he’s done to reproductive rights
Who ever thought an American bleeding out from a disastrous pregnancy would have to be flown to safety in her own country?
Clarence Page: Donald Trump takes us for fools when he says he knows nothing about ‘Project 2025’
If past is prologue, and Trump in a second term ends up using Heritage’s big book as a policy blueprint again, this 920-page tome offers plenty to keep more moderate folks, like me, awake at night.
Cal Thomas: Project 2025 is full of credible proposals
The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” policy guide is full of credible proposals. Rather than allow opponents to mischaracterize them, people should read the book and see whether they are radical or rational.
Austin Bay: A Trump NATO? The 3% solution
If they want peace, for the next 10 years NATO nations and their Pacific allies must spend 3% of GDP on defense. Current U.S. defense spending? About 3%.