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Opinion

Tucker Carlson and the freedom of speech

Columns

Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, ...

We have reached the Emily Litella moment on climate change

Columns

It's been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America's 2024-25 winter was pretty cold too. It's gotten to the point that ...

The Washington Post on Donald Trump’s incoherent trade policy

Editorial

Consider two statements of fact. First, the United States has a lead on artificial intelligence, but allowing the sale of advanced semiconductors could allow China, its biggest adversary, to catch up. Second, the U.S. has imported more goods than it has exported every year since ...

What ever happened to U.P. nice?

Letters To The Editor

Th the Journal editor: As I sat in church this past Sunday, I reflected on the two recent gun tragedies — one in Providence, Rhode Island and another in Australia — at a time of the Christian season of Advent and the Jewish season of the Festival of Lights. These horrific events should ...

Does either party actually want to win the Senate race in Texas?

Columns

One of the worst features of the election primary system in our polarized "Red vs. Blue" time is the tendency of primary voters to flock to the candidate they most want to "destroy" the other party, not the candidate best positioned to do so. Let's say a zombie is scratching at your door. ...

Australia’s dangerous naivete

Columns

The Bondi Beach attack in Australia was shocking, but not at all surprising. Some of the details were distinctive — an idyllic spot on the Pacific Ocean instantly turned into a killing field, a father-son terror squad — but the basic picture of a radicalized Muslim immigrant targeting a ...