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Froma Harrop

The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let's savor the moment. The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in "specialty occupations." The visa's fans offer a mirror image, with ...

Letters to the editor

Just say 'no thanks' Editor: “Tax the rich, fund the schools”... or not. There is presently a petition drive going on to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot, known as “Invest in MI kids” The key talking point will be putting a “fair” “surcharge” on the wealthy by increasing the taxes on any earned income over $500K (single) or $1 million (marries filing jointly) and adding a billion dollars a year to education in Michigan. Sounds great, right? Not so much. This proposed change has 3 key flaws. 1. The Michigan constitution currently prohibits a ...

Rich Lowry

Donald Trump's second term has been met with a sustained, low-level campaign of domestic terrorism. It has mostly involved relatively minor property damage amid much more consequential acts, but the pattern of violence meant to achieve anti Trump political goals has been unmistakable. I ...

Robert B. Reich

Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn't — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that "every American will soon receive their own MedBed card" that will grant them ...

Josh Hammer

Four of America's nominally closest allies — Britain, Australia, France and Canada — disgraced themselves this week by recognizing a so-called Palestinian state. In so doing, these nations didn't merely betray the broader Western civilizational inheritance to which they lay claim. They ...

Letter to the editor

Retribution Editor: Since his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump has called the Bible his favorite book, a sentiment he reiterated during a March 2024 promotion of a patriotic-themed version. When asked to name a favorite Bible verse during his first campaign, he declined, calling it “very personal” and saying he didn't “want to get into specifics.” Humm. During racial justice protests in 2020, then-President Trump held up a Bible for a photo opportunity in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, a gesture that was widely condemned by religious leaders for its use of faith as a ...