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BARONE: Big surprises in the 2030 census estimates

About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025. It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the ...

HARROP: Exactly what business are we in with measles?

Measles is a "cost of doing business," says a highly placed official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I'd like to know what business that is. To be fair, let me finish the CDC principal deputy director's quote. Ralph Abraham said that measles is a cost of doing business ...

JOECKS: Can the Vances make it cool to have kids?

Vice President J.D. Vance is putting his own spin on MAGA -- Make America Grow Again. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance recently announced that she is pregnant. Their fourth child, a boy, is due in June. Usha isn't the only woman connected to the White House who is expecting. Press Secretary ...

HARROP: Trump turns us into villains who will ultimately lose

A most American of movies, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," is a morality tale about what happens when intimidation goes unanswered. The Clanton gang marauds through Tombstone, flashing their guns and humiliating townspeople. Feeding on fear, their bullying escalates as decent people avoid ...

DE RUGY: ‘RINOs,’ Meet the ‘Depublicans’

For some years now, conservatives who believe in free markets and limited government have been labeled RINOs -- "Republicans in name only" -- as GOP liberals or moderates have historically been known. The MAGA movement flings this term as an insult and a signal that respecting the realities of ...