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BARONE: Uncertainty remains, after 20 days of war with Iran

Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There's a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number -- 1,486 days altogether -- is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border on Feb. 22, 2022, and headed for Kyiv. The second number -- just 20 days -- is the number ...

WILLIAMS: This is no longer dysfunction — it is danger

When a Transportation Security Administration official warns that airports could "quite literally shut down," we are no longer talking about inconvenience, delays or political theater. We are talking about vulnerability in one of the most sensitive and critical systems in our country. Aviation ...

MOORE: Who’s afraid of a trillionaire?

Early this year, we learned that Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire in world history. My friends on the left of the political spectrum have been fuming about this story as the ultimate example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting crumbs. When I appeared on "Real ...

PARKER: Freedom is not free

At the height of the energy crisis in the 1970s, when oil prices more than sextupled, The Economist magazine showed a map of the Persian Gulf on its cover with the headline, "What's a Nice Thing Like Oil Doing in a Place Like This?" The Iranian miscreants, with whom we are now at war, ...

ZITO: Our civilian-military bond is cracked

On Tuesday, TMZ published a story with a dramatic all-caps headline, "PETE HEGSETH BLEW BILLION$ ON FRUIT BASKETS, LOBSTER," that was accompanied by a manufactured photo of the secretary of war surrounded by a bunch of plastic lobsters. The initial story was followed by several other "news" ...

GARVEY: The ‘easy way out’ may not be so easy after all

I've been hearing a lot lately about how it's "taking the easy way out" to use GLP-1s to lose weight. That may be true. But then again, you might be able to say the same thing about virtually every medical advancement. When you boil it down, chemotherapy is "taking the easy way out" of ...