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Broken windows policy can be found at the top

Columns

The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It’s true that other presidents ...

AOC poised to be Democrats’ Trump

Columns

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is both radical and unqualified to be president. But she still has a clear path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination. On Tuesday, Socialist Zohran Mamdani will likely become the next mayor of New York City. He wants a rent freeze, city-owned grocery ...

Don’t Forget to Vote

Editorials

The candidates have had their chance to persuade. The organizations asking you to either renew or approve a tax levy for their services have done their part. Now it’s up to you. Get out and vote at your polling place today. If you didn’t take advantage of early voting, today is the ...

Some things for Barack Obama and his band of brothers to consider

Columns

Dear former President Barack Obama, During former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, you chastised “the brothers” for what you perceived as their reluctance to vote for a Black female. You said: “We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all ...

The right continues to play a dangerous game

Columns

“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” — Henry Higgins Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay ...

Conservatives look to preserve, Trump destroys

Columns

A recent poll found 65% of Americans considered President Donald Trump to be conservative or very conservative. That I do not understand. Trump is the opposite of a conservative. A conservative conserves, maintaining what is good and just and building upon it. Donald Trump is no ...