Editorials

Froma Harrop Joe Biden surely knows that chaos at the border threatens his reelection.. America’s future as a democracy can’t wait for the much-needed overhaul of the immigration system. November is approaching, and Biden must take radical steps to deal with the crisis. Let’s be clear. Donald Trump would destroy America as we know it.…

Byron York At this stage of things, most of the developments in the criminal cases against former President Trump involve this appeal or that appeal, or this hearing date or that hearing date. But in Fulton County, Georgia, where the elected Democratic district attorney, Fani Willis, has brought a massive RICO case against Trump and…

Susan Estrich The question is not when the Supreme Court will weigh in on Donald Trump’s eligibility to serve as president of the United States but if it will do so at all. It already resisted one opportunity when it refused to fast track the appeal of the district court’s ruling that he is not…

Rich Lowry The White House is losing the immigration debate. There hasn’t been any question that it has deserved to lose this debate from the beginning. But for the longest time, there wasn’t much focus on the border, except on the right. Now the negotiations between the White House and congressional Republicans over a package…

Ted Rall I talked to a lot of people in Afghanistan, where I reported about the fall 2001 U.S. invasion. Young or old, urban or rural, no matter their ethnicity, they all expected the victors to work miracles after the Taliban’s defeat. “America will build roads, schools, buildings, everything.” “Now Afghanistan will be beautiful.” “We…

Byron York In an interview with the Financial Times, the longtime Washington political analyst Charlie Cook noted that President Joe Biden’s job approval rating has been stuck below 50% for a long time — 2 1/2 years — and shows no signs of rising above 50% anytime soon. “There seems to be virtually no elasticity…

Carry Classon I drove my parents to their cabin this week. My mom is having some terrible pain in her jaw and wasn’t sure she was up to the drive, and my dad doesn’t see well enough to drive anymore. I felt lucky to spend time in the car with them, driving north. There was…

Ann Coulter GOP mega-donors are appalled that Gov. Ron DeSantis prohibited kindergarten teachers from sharing anal sex cartoons with their students. Must be some kind of fundamentalist nut. But a candidate who wants to entirely ban a social media app as bad for children? That’s our gal! Nikki Haley has vowed to shut down TikTok,…