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Columns

What arresting a judge means

Last week the FBI arrested a Wisconsin state judge as she was walking into the courthouse where she works. The feds had alerted the media — but not the judge — to this event, and they arrived and recorded the arrest. The standard and preferred practice when arresting a nonviolent person ...

Targeted by Trump, public broadcasting frets about the future

The nation's public broadcasting system — decades-long home to Big Bird, Ken Burns documentaries and "All Things Considered" — faces the biggest crisis in its nearly 60-year history with President Donald Trump's order to slash federal subsidies. A court fight seems inevitable, with the ...

Canada starts real resistance to Trump actions in 2nd term

Most remarkable about the recent Canadian election is that patriotism rather than raw economic interest propelled voters to resist Donald Trump. Canadians rejected the MAGA-fied Conservative Party, despite an economy suffering from anemic growth and high housing costs, all pinned on Justin ...

Good intentions, bad results

Government makes most things worse. Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on Drugs. Both had good intentions, but their “wars” do more harm than good. I believed the War on Poverty would lift people out of poverty. At the time I was a naive Princeton student ...

Yes, we need deportations without any due process

If Joe Biden effectuated his immigration policy without due process, why can’t Donald Trump do the same with his? That’s the question raised by Biden’s effortlessly permitting millions of people to enter the country illegally and Trump’s having to go through extensive exertions to ...

Trump tells America to start getting busy begatting

“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth.” — Genesis 1:28 President Trump is going God one better. God told Adam and Eve to start having children. The president is considering adding an incentive — paying couples $5,000 to begat. The fertility rate in the U.S. has been ...