Opinion

Letter: As DFS departs Honolulu, Kahului Airport is next

Letters to the Editor February 21, 2026

While attention is on Honolulu International Airport as DFS prepares to leave, Kahului Airport is next, and possibly others after that. What happens in Honolulu will likely set the pattern. DFS helped build airport retail in Hawaiʻi for decades. Their focus on Asian visitors made sense for many years. But when travel patterns changed, the dollar strengthened, and the pandemic hit, DFS made a business decision to move on rather than adapt. That decision leaves a large gap — and a warning. What many people don’t realize is that DFS relied heavily on local disadvantaged ...

Veronique de Rugy: The CBO's latest report and the choice between reform and disorder

Columns February 21, 2026

Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year's extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America has is a spending problem so large that the ...

Tim Graham: Jim Crow smears allowed by Democrat-aligned 'fact-checkers'

Columns February 21, 2026

The people who call themselves the "mainstream media" have a remarkable tendency to take the minority position on an 80-20 issue, most recently on requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. House Republicans have passed the SAVE Act, while Democrats have almost unanimously opposed ...

Cal Thomas: Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson

Columns February 20, 2026

President Trump called Rev. Jesse Jackson "a force of nature" and so he was. Jackson, who died Tuesday at 84, was the last great orator of the civil rights movement. He could bring an audience to cheers or to tears with the power of his personality. I once accompanied him to a Washington, ...

Keith Raffel: 'Deplorables' were so right about the elite — but so wrong about Trump

Columns February 20, 2026

In 2016, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton found herself in hot water after declaring that half of Trump's supporters were "a basket of deplorables… racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it." Ten years later, we've discovered an overflowing, handwoven silk ...

Froma Harrop: Big brother is making you watch him

Columns February 20, 2026

A poster depicting an enormous face gazed from the wall. The caption ran, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." So wrote George Orwell at the open of his dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Big Brother's image was everywhere, on printed material and on telescreens blasting state propaganda in ...