Op-Ed: A Great Unraveling Is Underway

Every few years, Congress discusses some form of spending limits. Usually, these go nowhere or are ignored or repealed a couple of years or so after passage. Read moreOp-Ed: Spending cuts are only way to end U.S. government debt crisis

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read moreOp-Ed: Injustice in Nashville

I’ll let others describe the economic carnage President Donald Trump’s tariffs have already begun to wreak. I want to describe the damage they will do to the American psyche and the American soul. Read moreOp-Ed: How Tariffs Destroy What Makes America Great

If you want to see the future of transportation, head to Phoenix. You’ll witness a quiet revolution underway: Autonomous vehicles—absent any human driver—navigate the city streets and highways… Read moreOp-Ed: How Arizona Is Driving the Future with Driverless Cars

I had a choice the other day in Shanghai: Which Tomorrowland to visit? Should I check out the fake, American-designed Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland, or should I visit the real Tomorrowla… Read moreOp-Ed: I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.

The world should remember the name of Odai Al-Rubai. The 22-year-old Palestinian man joined protests in the Gaza Strip last week to demand an end to 18 years of Hamas’ violent misrule in the t… Read moreOp-Ed: Free Gaza From Its Own Tyrants First

“It’s the unmarked cars,” a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said. He had watched the video of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction. In the video, which Khali… Read moreUnmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived.

The Arizona State Legislature is considering a bill that would further subsidize the 27-year-old Chase Field, which taxpayers provided more than $250 million to help build in 1998, in order to… Read moreOp-Ed: The $500M heist from Arizona taxpayers to give a handout to a billionaire

For the Evangelical Christians who have given – and still give – overwhelming support to President Trump while refusing to criticize him for language and behavior they would presumably denounc… Read moreOp-Ed: A heretic in the White House

Last year’s election was close, despite President Donald Trump’s hyperbolic claims about his margin of victory. Still, the Democratic Party clearly lost — and not only the presidential race. I… Read moreEditorials of The Times: The Democrats Are in Denial About 2024

To travel north of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, is to enter a graveyard of the Russian army. When I was there in 2023, the battlefield had been largely cleaned up, and the villages were coming bac… Read moreWhat Rusting Russian Tanks Can Teach Us About the Pete Hegseth Group Chat

Haruki Murakami was a mediocre student. Like a lot of people who go on to high achievement later in life, the future novelist had trouble paying attention to what the teachers told him to pay … Read moreOp-Ed: Why We Do Unpleasant Things

"It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state." — Milton Friedman Read moreOp-Ed: Milton Friedman was right

One of the easiest things to do is become discouraged…especially when the country is in the throes of the various actions being taken by the current “leadership." Read moreOp-Ed: Thinking positively in a negative environment

Columbia University at first appeared to have surrendered to President Trump’s demands that the New York school stop coddling antisemitic and anti-Israel demonstrators. The school announced it… Read moreOp-Ed: Why are top universities getting federal money?

The Democrats, casting about for an anti-Trump narrative, have found a word: “oligarchy.” It was part of Joe Biden’s farewell address; it’s central to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ barnstorming; it sho… Read moreIt’s About Ideology, Not Oligarchy

"It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get them in there they charge us a huge surtax. They call it a surtax or a tariff. Well, I simply call that a tax." - President Donald Trump Read moreOp-Ed: What you know and don't know about tariffs

Just in case Americans were beginning to feel blasé about the record speed with which President Donald Trump has reestablished control of our borders, we were reminded of just how lawless, cha… Read moreOp-Ed: ‘Cooked books’ reveal the depths of Biden’s dishonesty on border crisis

Unlike his predecessor, President Donald Trump understands that abundant and affordable energy is absolutely essential to the future of America. Since his return to the Oval Office, Trump has … Read moreOp-Ed: Trump makes coal great again

I don’t know how Pete Hegseth can look service members in the eye. He’s just blown his credibility as a military leader. Read moreOp-Ed: If Pete Hegseth Had Any Honor, He Would Resign

The SAVE Act isn’t about Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility — it’s about making it harder for millions of American citizens to vote by imposing unnecessary and burdensome documentation re… Read moreOp-Ed: SAVE Act could cost married women in Arizona voting access

As I was driving to get lunch the other day, I saw a luxury SUV with the license plate “JESUSNM” in the lane next to mine, a pretty obvious reference to “Jesus’ name,” a common way that Christ… Read moreOp-Ed: Why can you praise Jesus on your license plate, but not celebrate being gay?

Two years ago, the county-run Pima Animal Care Center posted on its website photos of 20 dogs and said if they weren’t adopted soon, they’d be euthanized. Read moreOp-Ed: Is animal care center's deception finally over?

State Representative Gail Griffin, Chairman of the House Natural Resources, Energy & Water Committee issued the following statement on the Arizona Department of Water Resources’ characteri… Read moreOp-Ed: Some Rural Groundwater Basins are Facing Challenges, but Lawmakers are Not Receiving a Complete Picture

President Trump is using an 18th-century law – the Alien Enemies Act– to justify the deportation of hundreds of people he says are members of a vicious Venezuelan gang. That law was last used … Read moreOp-Ed: Due process for all, or for none at all

Legend has it that nearly two and a half centuries before President Trump declared English as the official language of the United States, Hebrew was proposed as an alternative.  Read moreHow Hebrew Almost Became America's Official Language

The news this past weekend that the Trump administration plans to shutter the United States Agency for Global Media was hardly unexpected. It nonetheless came as a shock to many who work in wh… Read moreOp-Ed: Telling the American Story: Public Diplomacy in the Trump Era

A peace agreement on Ukraine is an expansion of the United States into Russia. The conclusion of a peace agreement in Ukraine depends on the effectiveness of the exchange of Ukrainian capabili… Read moreDonald Trump's Peace Formula Is to Exchange Ukraine for Russia

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu,… Read moreOp-Ed: We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

A friend recently told me that he has devised a way to ask people how they are doing that is appropriate for the current, protracted bad-news moment. He asks, “How are you, personally?” Read moreOp-Ed: Trump Isn’t Just Attacking Trans People. He’s Denationalizing Them