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Postal Service has outlived its usefulness

Those of us of a certain age — born before about 1970 — have fond memories of the mailman (yes, that’s what we called him, not “postal carrier”) dropping off a pile of letters and cards into the mailbox down the driveway six days a week. But those days are long past. Now if we have ...

Cooper ‘independence’ always in favor of liberals

Anderson Cooper decided to quit his moonlighting job at “60 Minutes,” but not without a few words interpreted as “a dig” at CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. In an “Overtime” video reviewing his CBS career, Cooper proclaimed: “There’s very few things that have been around ...

Could Trump be a worse president or person?

WASHINGTON — Camelot, it’s not. King Arthur, not even close. Donald Trump is a pretender president who doesn’t even pretend to do right by the people. In all candor, this city, graced by garden squares, memorials and museums, feels like a crime scene, with his fingerprints everywhere on ...

Our screen culture increasingly can’t read

We’ve been having a debate about “book bans” in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how anyone would notice whether a book is available in a school library or not. The New York Times published an eye-opening report on a study by the ...

Bridge generation starting to feel its age

Millennials are a cultural infrastructure, like an older overpass everyone depends on, but it’s starting to carry more weight than it was originally designed to hold. We’re trying to move things forward as we absorb tension from both directions. And increasingly, this generation is being ...

China is our enemy, not our rival

China is not merely America’s geopolitical opponent. It is America's geopolitical enemy — and has been since the establishment of the Chinese communist regime in 1949. For decades, American leaders and elites indulged the fantasy that this reality could be softened or reversed. Richard ...