Opinion
BARONE: The barista proletariat wins in New York
LLOYD: Celebrate Independence Day by finding some common ground
De RUGY: Social Security and Medicare’s trustees have spoken. Will pols listen before the cuts hit?

Letter: Concerns about the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

Letter: Tax dollars shouldn’t be wasted on death-row prisoners
HARROP: ‘A lot of Americans are going to die’ courtesy of Bobby Kennedy

Guest opinion: Measles outbreak highlights consequences of vaccination choices
STIEHM: Campbell keeps Capitol history fires burning

Letter: Senator Mike Lee’s disgrace
ERICKSON: Assessments and credibility
On Tuesday, in what it labeled an "exclusive," CNN reported that initial intelligence assessments of the Iran bombing suggested Iran had been set back a couple of months in its quest for a nuclear weapon. The report's lead reporter was Natasha Bertrand. In 2020, Bertrand played a lead role in ...
BARONE: The barista proletariat wins in New York
Zohran Mamdani's lead in first choices in New York City's ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth and fifth choices of trailing candidates are allocated to candidates voters ranked lower, mean that he'll be the Democratic nominee for mayor of the ...
De RUGY: Social Security and Medicare’s trustees have spoken. Will pols listen before the cuts hit?
Considering recent news, you may have missed that the 2025 trustees reports for Social Security and Medicare are out. Once again, they confirm what we've known for decades: Both programs are barreling straight toward insolvency. The Social Security retirement trust fund and Medicare Hospital ...
LLOYD: Celebrate Independence Day by finding some common ground
"Can we all get along?" It's been more than 32 years since the world heard those words from Rodney King during a press conference as riots brought violence and destruction to Los Angeles in 1991, but in many ways the question probably resonates just as much — if not more — today. Because ...
HARROP: ‘A lot of Americans are going to die’ courtesy of Bobby Kennedy
Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican from Louisiana, is also a doctor. He put up resistance last February to Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "Bobby," as Trump likes to call him, has long cast doubts on the safety of vaccines that ...
Letter: Concerns about the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
My question is if this bill is all about spending and reduction, why did they hide in the bill Sections 70302 and 43201, and modify Hearing protection actin Section 112029? It is interesting that two members of the House of Representatives had no idea these sections were in the bill. I have ...