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RUGY: ‘When will markets react to debt?’ is the wrong question

Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way. Federal debt held by the public now equals the size of the annual economy -- and is growing. Yet investors continue buying ...

WILLIAMS: Voters deserve more than a choice between extremes

Many Americans are wrestling with a political dilemma they may not discuss openly. They are concerned about progressive policies they associate with socialism, expanding government, DEI mandates, gender-affirming policies, anti-American sentiment in higher education, and rising lawlessness. ...

Guest opinion: We Keep Reporting the Deaths. We Keep Missing the Story.

This past weekend, two families got the call no family should ever get. On Saturday, Jennifer Eckhart, a former Fox News producer who had spent years speaking out about trauma, died by suicide in Florida. She was 36. On Sunday, Presley Gerber, the 27-year-old son of Cindy Crawford, was found ...

HARROP: Cutting off a parent can be self-preservation, not cruelty

An in-law, age 95 and on her deathbed, was having some final conversations. She brought up a memory of her own mother, who had lost a 2-year-old daughter to a childhood disease. When she misbehaved as a child, the elderly woman recalled, "My mother would say, 'I wish you had died instead of ...

Guest opinion: Washington’s and Hamilton’s ideals are abandoned

Over two centuries ago Alexander Hamilton presciently identified the source of many of the problems we face today. Hamilton maintained state power was the primary threat to our ideal of "one nation, indivisible." He feared states would thwart the will of the majority of people; He ridiculed ...