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Cal Thomas: Democrats now and then

Following last week's primary elections in which the rise of Democrat-Socialist candidates alarmed many longtime Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) read a list of things he said those far-left candidates stand for. To conservatives, and Independents, the list sounded like a grand ...

Jeff Robbins: Days of disgrace: America tells refugees to pound sand

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," reads the iconic welcome to the world's oppressed inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. Emma Lazarus, the poet who penned those words, had herself helped Jewish refugees from the anti-Semitic pogroms of Eastern Europe ...

Clarence Page: We all stand to lose in Hegseth's war on diversity

Is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth resegregating the military? I hear that question a lot since the news broke that our nation's current secretary of defense has actively blocked or delayed the promotions of dozens of senior military officers — with women and people of color ...

Georgia Garvey: In Days of Yore, Adrift on Waves of Chianti

It's summer, the season of vacations, therefore the season of air travel and the season of people getting kicked off planes because they've had too much to drink. The culture has shifted, though, and because of regulations or health consciousness or sheer panic at the idea of getting sued, ...

Rich Lowry: The temporary immigration program that's been forever

The last two decades have been a continuous adventure in redefining the phrase "white supremacy" to include less and less pertinent things. The latest is that the Supreme Court has allegedly joined forces with Trump to "advance an authoritarian, white-supremacist agenda" — in the words of ...