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COUNTERPOINT: Enforcing immigration law benefits Americans
The administration is right to argue that enforcing immigration laws gets criminal aliens out of communities. It is exceedingly unwise for jurisdictions to release undocumented immigrants from their jails as a matter of policy, even after Immigration and Customs Enforcement asks them to hold them.
The reasons for enforcing the law go well ...Read more
Commentary: Mamdani's $30 minimum wage spells disaster for New Yorkers
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sells his “$30 by 2030” minimum wage plan as a lifeline for the working class, but it’s really a career-ender for the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who hold entry-level jobs.
While reducing poverty is a bipartisan objective, socialist wage floors are a utopian vision that may create�...Read more
Commentary: Is immigration driving crime in Chicago? Here's what the data shows
Immigration has become one of America’s sharpest flashpoints, increasingly framed not only as a border issue but as a public safety threat. In recent weeks, that framing has turned into real-world confrontation.
In Minneapolis, federal immigration agents fatally shot U.S. citizen and Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti during an enforcement ...Read more
POINT: Legal immigration boosts America's innovation advantage
America’s economic strength rests on its ability to attract talent, reward hard work, and out-innovate global competitors. Today, as the country faces labor shortages and an increasingly competitive world economy, carefully controlled immigration is not just an economic policy choice — it is a strategic necessity.
If the United States wants...Read more
Commentary: Ukraine and Russia are both suffering as the war enters its fifth year
When the Russian army unleashed its large-scale air and ground invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there was widespread expectation that the war would wrap up in Moscow’s favor relatively quickly.
During the war’s first week, the U.S. intelligence community delivered an assessment to the administration of President Joe Biden that Russian...Read more
Editorial: Special education students succeed in charter schools
Imagine you run a business. Sales of your primary line are foundering because you’re not producing quality products. You’ve spent handsomely to improve it, but troubles persist. Many customers are deeply unsatisfied.
But a small division within your company has come up with a superior product. Customers begin to flock to that creation at ...Read more
Editorial: Democracy is under siege in Florida
Florida voters adopted the current state Constitution in 1968 to create a modern democracy. Nothing lasts forever.
It brought self-governing home rule to cities and counties, which were mere puppets of a backward, rural-dominated Legislature that met every other year. It required population-based redistricting every 10 years, which the so-...Read more
Editorial: Racist Trump post demands accountability
President Donald Trump says he knows nothing of the racist post that went out on his social media account. We're skeptical, considering the president's juvenile impulses and predilection for crudity. A meme depicting former President Barack and Michelle Obama as apes is not outside his range.
If he's telling the truth, and a staffer is ...Read more
John Rash: Don't squander US credibility with squalid memes
For 15 years, Politico had annually named its “Lie of the Year.”
But by December of last year the deceit was so unceasing that the publication named 2025 “The Year of Lies.”
PolitiFact’s Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders explained the shift by writing, “The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025.” Online forums, she wrote,...Read more
Joe Battenfeld: Kamala Harris teasing a comeback with AOC as VP
A Kamala Harris-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presidential ticket is gaining some traction among desperate Democrats but it could be the best case scenario for Republicans in 2028.
Harris – trounced by Donald Trump in 2024 – is not ruling out another run and teasing a comeback, aided by the fact that few other viable contenders are emerging from...Read more
Lisa Jarvis: The knockoff GLP-1 market is still the Wild West
Telehealth company Hims & Hers unleashed a wild few days in the obesity drug market last week when it introduced a cheap, compounded version of Novo Nordisk’s new Wegovy pill.
It was an audacious attempt for a piece of the lucrative GLP-1 market that came to a swift and disastrous end — the company pulled its product just two days after its...Read more
David M. Drucker: How Trump squandered his most potent political asset
Republicans who minimize President Donald Trump’s sliding job approval ratings typically emphasize that his agenda contains many popular policies. Those arguments misunderstand what makes for successful political leadership.
Even though some White House policies are popular, policy is but one leg of the three-legged stool of political ...Read more
Editorial: Black History Month observed for a century, but erasure efforts go on
This year marks the 100th year for Black history to be formally recognized nationally. Started in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson as Negro History Week, the month is used to spotlight the true picture and often overlooked contributions and achievements of Black Americans despite the systemic challenges they faced.
Essential to that picture ...Read more
Abby McCloskey: The Heritage Foundation sees the family crisis -- but not the fix
“What happens to a nation when its citizens largely stop having children and, when they do, eschew marriage?” asks the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank. The size of its 164-page report “Saving America by Saving the Family” is outdone only by the 60-by-30-foot banner draped across the outside of its building. ...Read more
Commentary: When liberty shows cracks
On the streets of Iran in recent weeks, security forces have killed thousands of protesters demanding basic rights and opposing the state’s authority. That stark image is not meant to equate our politics with theirs, but it poses a question Americans cannot ignore: What does it look like when government violence becomes routine and when ...Read more
Commentary: Faulty science, untimely deaths -- Animals and patients deserve better than flawed organ transplants
Imagine taking your SUV in for a new fuel pump, only to have the mechanic dismantle a nearby motorcycle and pronounce, “This one might work!” Most everyone would know to bolt for the door, but tragically, experimenters toying with xenotransplantation—cutting organs out of genetically engineered animals and stitching them inside humans—...Read more
Commentary: Rising costs, chronic disease and AI -- The fight to save US health care
In most industries, leaders can respond quickly when market conditions change. Within months, companies can shrink or expand their workforces, adopt innovative technologies, and reconfigure operations.
Health care lacks such flexibility. It takes a decade to train new physicians. Hospitals take years to plan, fund, and build — years longer ...Read more
Commentary: What 'Star Trek' understood about division -- and why we keep falling for it
The more divided we become, the more absurd it all starts to look.
Not because the problems aren’t real—they are—but because the patterns are. The outrage cycles. The villains rotate. The language escalates. And yet the outcomes remain stubbornly the same: more anger, less trust, and very little that resembles progress.
This isn’t a ...Read more
Martin Schram: Do-it-yourself fact checking made easy
Newspaper billionaire deciders are demolishing their news media hobbies like bored kids disassembling the electric trains they’ve outgrown.
And TV news-CEOs have already scrapped most of their professionally reported, scripted, edited, soundbite-packed news packages not because they got bored, but because of quality costs. So they’ve mostly...Read more
Commentary: The real threat to Arctic security
President Donald Trump, in the face of domestic and international resistance, appears to have ruled out, at least for now, the use of military force to acquire Greenland. While the heat has been turned down in the short term, the longer-term consequences of Trump’s recklessness for the Arctic are unlikely to be worthy of celebration.
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