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Opinion

Abortion state by state?

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Donald Trump is now trying to distance himself from the written Republican Project 2025 plan for a nationwide ban on abortion by claiming that he just wants to leave it up to the individual states to vote and decide for themselves. That may sound to some at first, to ...

What are we conserving?

Columns

When my friend David French — New York Times columnist, pro-life evangelical, and lifelong conservative — announced that he would be voting for Kamala Harris, it was like dropping a Porterhouse steak amid a pride of lions. The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg wrote a rebuttal, asserting, among ...

Time to start your voting preparation now

Columns

As we begin the month of September and say goodbye to summer, much of our attention over the next few months will be focused on a prospect that many are dreading: the election. While many of us feel as if election season, particularly when president is on the ballot, can drag on forever and ...

We want to see the world; does the world want to see us?

Columns

Hawaii charges tourists a variety of taxes and fees. It may soon add a $25 climate tax visitors would pay when they check into a hotel or short-term rental. It’s meant to address the environmental impact of mass tourism and help in the rebuilding of Lahaina, the Maui town devastated last year ...

2024 an unusual year

Columns

What if they held a tumultuous election, with an early one-sided debate, a candidate substitution and third-party withdrawal, and no voters changed their minds? Well, that’s not exactly what has happened in America’s 60th presidential election year, but it’s not so far off, either. The ...

Searching for monsters

Columns

“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy ... She might become the dictatress of the world, But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.” — John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the future president John Quincy ...