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February 21, 2026
Epstein Was Only One of Thousands of Traffickers in the U.S.
Every year, more than 100,000 children may be sold for sex in the United States. Are we willing to do something about that?
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February 21, 2026
‘A Cocked Pistol Aimed at Iran’
Three Opinion writers on Iran, Epstein and what power really looks like.
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February 11, 2026
Trump Is Best at Cashing In on the Presidency
New disclosures underscore that the White House is enveloped in a culture of corruption with no precedent in American history.
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February 9, 2026
What We Can Learn From Southern Red States About Education
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a way forward.
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February 7, 2026
Lessons for America From Asia
What if the valedictorians in our schools were the cool kids?
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January 28, 2026
How to Bring Back the American Dream
Some of the best coaches we can find to help struggling children escape poverty may be other children and their families.
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January 24, 2026
The Island That Actually Matters to American Interests
The risk of Chinese aggression is hard to gauge, but it surely grows if we signal that Beijing has a free hand.
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January 21, 2026
Please, World Leaders, Don’t Appease America
We don’t want our children patrolling hostile streets in Greenland or Canada any more than in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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January 17, 2026
How War With China Begins
Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.
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January 14, 2026
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Unhappiness
One reason for the toxicity of American politics may be that our quality of life is slipping behind our peers’.
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January 4, 2026
The Venezuela I Know
Many are celebrating the ouster of a brutal dictator, but the Maduro regime may survive the loss of Maduro.
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December 27, 2025
In Which I Try Valiantly to Cheer You Up
OK, 2025 wasn’t the best year ever. But we’re arguably still in the best decade in the history of humanity.
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December 24, 2025
Letting ‘Peace on Earth’ Mean Nothing
A militia accused of genocide has seized a city of a quarter-million people, and it now appears from satellites to be a ghost town.
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December 20, 2025
What Would Surprise Jesus About Christmas 2025?
An eminent New Testament scholar recounts what he says was the message of Jesus that transformed the West.
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December 17, 2025
Let’s Go Beyond Trump’s Vile Words About Rob Reiner
We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.
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