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Opinion

Protect your home while you’re away

Editorial

As summer winds down, many Americans are making the most of those final vacation days, while often leaving their homes unoccupied for days or weeks. Such absences can make homes vulnerable to potential damage or theft. “If your home is not secured or properly maintained, problems like water ...

Trump policies hurt Main Street

Editorial

If financial conditions are restrictive, Wall Street sure hasn’t noticed. Stock indexes hit fresh records this week, and speculative meme stocks are back to mania levels. Meanwhile, smaller businesses in the non-financial economy are tightening their belts amid uncertainty over tariffs and ...

Limits on drug ads not so great

Editorial

Since stepping into the helm at the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has done his best to challenge traditional medicine. He has loosened vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant women, peddled baseless claims about the causes of chronic diseases, and ...

Dems still in disarray with midterm elections next

Columns

By MICHAEL BARONE Here’s a clue that the off-year elections in November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests. That conventional wisdom is that the president’s party almost always loses House and, slightly less often, Senate seats. There are two structural reasons for ...

Why the forest sometimes needs a little fire

Columns

By BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP Unless you’re roasting marshmallows, it’s hard to think of fire in the woods as a good thing. We all watched wildfire devastation play out earlier this year in Southern California, and many dealt with poor air quality as smoke drifted into the United States from ...

Mental illness is literally killing us

Columns

By GARY FRANKS It is my understanding that being “woke” means that we cannot talk about history or the past, about things like “slavery in America and suicides in America,” as such topics could make white people, especially white men, uncomfortable. Yes, as Jack Nicholson once ...