Opinion
The economy is booming, and yet last year’s deficit was 6.3 percent of gross domestic product. If you correct for some odd accounting surrounding the Biden administration’s decision to forgive billions of dollars’ worth of student loans, it was more like
Ever since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israelis, followed by Israel’s retaliatory military campaign in Gaza, the Biden administration has said humanitarian assistance in Gaza is a key pillar of its approach to the crisis. But that part of the U.S. strategy now seems to be failing, as Israel’s indiscriminate attacks and barriers […]
Advertisement Advertisement Today at 6:00 p.m. by Cal Thomas / Tribune Content Agency AP File Photo/Nick Wass / Harvard University’s Henry Louis Gates Jr. speaks at an unveiling and dedication ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral for new stained-glass windows on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Two men with decidedly different political outlooks […]
Cyril Ramaphosa is president of South Africa. As the U.S. House debates a bill on the bilateral relationship between the United States and South Africa, it is important to understand the history and the value . . .
James B. Foley was U.S. ambassador to Haiti from 2003 to 2005. Haiti is a story that appears to repeat itself while also growing inexorably worse over time. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent meeting in Jamaica with fractious Haitian political and civil society leaders recalled a similar moment when I . . .
If you’re trying to guess whether people are Republicans or Democrats, knowing a few basic facts about them will take you a long way. What’s their race and gender? How far did they get in school? What part of the country do they live in and is their community urban, suburban or rural? Between 2016 […]
FINA, the international swimming federation, has decided to ban Soul Cap, a swimming cap designed to accommodate natural afro-hair, in the upcoming Olympics. To make matters worse, FINA’s reasoning for the prohibition sounds like something straight out . . .
Editor’s Note: Keith Magee is senior fellow and visiting professor in cultural justice at . . .
I miss Black History Month. Ever since 2020, when George Floyd’s murder plunged us into America’s “racial reckoning” — the real Black History Month has been missing in action. Around the turn into the 20th century, Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University, said, “You go to school, you study about the Germans and the […]
Speaking at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, former President Trump spewed lies reflecting his ongoing efforts to rewrite the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He suggested his supporters . . .