Op-Eds

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Sioux Gateway Airport, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, in Sioux City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

MAGA won the party. It just lost the math

Eric Wargotz · October 31, 2026 2:00 pm

An ice cream vendor peers from his food truck where horse-drawn carriages wait for passengers at the entrance to Central Park, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, in New York.

Mamdani is … right? It’s time to retire New York’s horse-drawn carriage tradition

Turret barrels and control tower with radar on a US Navy military Iowa class battleship.

Get your STUFT together: Why the Pentagon needs a civilian fleet before missiles fly

Demonstrators rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial during a "No Kings" protest.

Obama had the Tea Party. Trump has ‘No Kings.’ You know how this story ends

Lindsay Clancy watches jurors enter the courtroom during her murder trial.

Lindsay Clancy tragedy exposes blind spot in modern psychiatry

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says there is wasteful spending there for the cutting in the federal budget. (AP File)

Congress should do its job and keep the spending caps

Tom Coburn December 5, 2013 5:00 am

American students are not performing up to par, academically, according to results from theÃÂ Program for International Student Assessment. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Schools improve when leaders stop rationalizing mediocrity

eric-hanushek, Paul Peterson December 5, 2013 5:00 am

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Hiking taxes on air passengers so government can spend more is wrong

Nicholas Calio December 5, 2013 5:00 am

How to avoid the nine most terrifying words in the English language

Anthony Sadar November 30, 2013 5:00 am

Manhattan Moment: FDA overreach has heavy costs

Op-Ed Contributor November 29, 2013 5:00 am

The president's Organizing for Action has launched a âHealth Care for the Holidaysâ campaign, complete with a video in which the parents tell their Millennial child that they have something really important to talk to him about.

Obamacare sales pitches insult Millennials’ intelligence

Op-Ed Contributor November 28, 2013 5:00 am

Sanctions have cut Iran's oil exports to about half what they were in 2011, yet there's been almost no effect on world energy markets thanks to American shale production. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Obama’s missed opportunity with Iran

Arthur Herman November 26, 2013 5:00 am

As Puerto Rico marked the Nov. 19 anniversary of its discovery by Christopher Columbus, the Obama White House announced it was dispatching an interagency task force to give advice to the island's beleaguered government. (AP Photo)

Puerto Rico’s ‘unnatural status’ undermines its economy, hurts US investors

alfonso-aguilar, Rich Danker November 26, 2013 5:00 am

Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. (Examiner file photo)

GAO fails to account for success of school choice

Virginia Walden Ford, Lindsey Burke November 25, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama pauses while speaking in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Advice Al Smith might have for President Obama

Michael Baroody November 23, 2013 5:00 am

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Manhattan Moment: Dodd-Frank is too convoluted to succeed

Nicole Gelinas November 22, 2013 5:00 am

Kennedy wasn't conservative or liberal. He was a believer in big government -- at home and abroad. (AP Photo)

John F. Kennedy was not a conservative

John C. Goodman November 22, 2013 5:00 am