Breaking News

Other Commentaries

The truth is not a disaster

The United States Supreme Court has released its decision in Louisiana v Callais. To listen to Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, who just argued that a wildly drawn partisan redistricting scheme in Virginia was “fair,” is to hear hysterics lying to whip partisans into a frenzy. A few days after a progressive activist, inflamed by left-wing rhetoric attempted a mass assassination of the president and his cabinet in Washington, perhaps Democrats should rein in their lies. The Supreme Court said, plainly, that states cannot draw legislative districts based on race. ...

Changing minds, one word at a time

I’ve just passed the three-year mark of writing this column. Every week. For three years. Over 120,000 words, enough for one long novel or two short ones. Why do it, anyway? It seems appropriate on the third anniversary of the column to come up with three reasons. First: Before turning to column-writing, I had five published novels. I wrote them in no small part to escape the violent, unjust world we live in and hang out in a fictional world where I had some control over what happened. By 2023, though, anger was boiling inside of me at a world where injustice, poverty, ...

You’re doing it wrong: Pants-washing edition

The article in The Washington Post pulled no punches. “You’re probably washing your pants wrong,” the headline informed me. “Here’s how to do it right.” As a woman and a parent, I am quite accustomed to being told that I’m doing something wrong, so, being thusly addressed, I did not immediately take umbrage. Perhaps The Washington Post is right, I thought. Perhaps, as is true with the way that I grocery shop, cook, feed and clothe my children, exercise, do my hair/makeup, walk, talk and breathe, there IS something wrong with the way that I wash my pants. Perhaps this ...

This is not how Americans are supposed to act

In just the past two years, there have been three serious attempts on the life of Donald Trump. In July 2024, a would-be assassin fired multiple shots at Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, wounding the former and future president and killing a member of the audience. In September 2024, secret service agents identified, engaged with, and later apprehended another hopeful assassin at Trump International Golf Club in Florida. And just days ago, gunshots erupted outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., as yet another deranged individual looked to ...

Fraud drives health care costs, profits

Polls show Americans are angry — and rightly so — at accelerating medical bills. Meanwhile, the insurers and hospitals keep raking in record profits. UnitedHealthcare just reported jumbo profits so far in 2026, and in 2025 they recorded revenues of more than $400 billion. They are raking in profits from the $1.9 trillion in federal health care programs. Two of the largest “nonprofit” hospital chains, Kaiser Permanente and HCA Healthcare, recorded nearly $200 billion in assets at the end 2024. As Rep. Jason Smith, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, put it: ...

Your whereabouts are known, always

“Big Brother is watching you” is no longer a fictional admonition. Everywhere you go, your location is recorded by phone technology, license plate readers, Uber and Lyft transactions, and cameras. Privacy? Forget about it. Your location history is in the hands of many tech companies. Can the police and other government agencies force tech companies to share that information about you? The U.S. Supreme Court took up that question. The decision could have widespread impact on your privacy. If your location history puts you within a 1-mile radius of a bank robbery with hundreds of ...