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National Columnists

Following through on dreams is possible

Turbulent times can make people feel helpless and hopeless, but we have more agency than we might think. We can still choose to live life on our own terms — whatever that means for each of us individually. This is what the McCaffertys did. “So many people have fallen prey to this idea that ...

Please junk your ‘junk food’ judgment

“This is junk food, Mommy.” That’s what my 6-year-old told me as he sat down to his pre-swimming lesson snack. I’d given him peanut butter pretzels, fruit snacks and a piece of leftover Halloween candy. “It’s bad for me, and I’ll get tired in a half-hour,” he went on, ...

Treat others like you would like to be treated

I recently read an informative article that provides advice for talking to children who may be stressed about the presidential election results. Held features an interview with a 37-year-old father who voted for President-elect Donald Trump, but his two older children, 11 and 13, had ...

Restoring deterrence will prevent endless wars

On January 3, 2020, the Trump administration conducted a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport, killing Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani had a long record of waging surrogate wars against Americans, especially during the Iraq conflict and its aftermath. After the ...

Democrats suffered setback, not wipeout

In 1994, Republicans won a sweeping victory that cost Democrats control of the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years. Republicans took an eye-popping 54 seats, leading many to conclude that this was a permanent political realignment. Two years later, Bill Clinton won reelection with ...

Trump Doctrine will bring increasing peace

Donald Trump’s foreign policy was, during his first term, not only successful; it was the most successful foreign policy of any president since Ronald Reagan. Yet thanks to their animus for Trump personally, pseudo-experts on foreign policy have refused to give Trump credit for his obvious ...