September 26, 2021, 6:01am Columns
When I wrote recently about how northern Idaho was surging with COVID cases, to the point that hospitals had triggered a plan to ration medical care, I got a slew of correspondence from people there saying: No we aren’t. Read story
September 25, 2021, 6:01am Columns
If you’re not purposely looking, the modern global supply chain is usually invisible. A complex system of materials, manufacturing and transportation that may as well be magic. Wave a wand — or hit that one-click order button — and the world is at your doorstep, sometimes overnight. Read story
September 24, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Those pictures are traumatizing. That’s because they contain so much more than what’s in them, so much more than horse-mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Rio Grande in Texas, running down and flogging would-be Haitian immigrants. Read story
September 24, 2021, 6:01am Columns
It’s been two weeks since President Joe Biden said the federal government would throw its weight behind new COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for corporate America. And there are already signs of progress. Read story
September 23, 2021, 6:01am Columns
The battle over Democrats’ ambitious spending plan is heating up in Congress, but one piece of the outcome already is clear: The $3.5 trillion price tag is being whittled down. Read story
September 22, 2021, 6:01am Columns
With the national media’s almost unabated attention to the attempted recall of California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week, several alert readers wrote to ask about something closer to home. Read story
September 21, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Is President Joe Biden killing a million children in Afghanistan? No, certainly not directly, but he and varied other officials set the stage in the overly quick, careless, incompetent U.S. withdrawal that put the Taliban in charge of the place. Read story
September 20, 2021, 6:01am Columns
What do you do when a president is crazy? That’s essentially the question Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced in the twilight days of the Trump administration. His answer, as reported by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their book, “Peril,” has some people up… Read story
September 20, 2021, 6:01am Columns
The Founding Fathers may have declared independence from Britain in 1776, but the real work of putting together the new government did not take place until the Constitutional Convention met between May and September of 1787 in the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. Read story
September 20, 2021, 6:01am Columns
One of the most challenging aspects of the modern presidency is to keep the focus on your own agenda, lest what you want to do is overwhelmed by what you have to do. Read story
