×

Viewpoints

Voter List Is An Overreaction To A Small Problem

Can the President order the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver mail he doesn’t like? Add this to the list of, er, innovative questions that President Trump is posing to the courts. On (March 31) he signed an executive action to create a federal list of people pre-approved to vote by mail, ...

Colorblindness Won’t Enforce Itself Despite DEI Pushback

The Trump administration has ruthlessly targeted diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs that classify Americans based on a progressive racial hierarchy. But the federal bureaucracy is vast, and the White House apparently didn’t catch them all. Hence a new lawsuit challenging a medical ...

Trump Cannot Deliver A Quick Exit From Iran

Whatever else Donald Trump’s “ pause ” is, it is not a ceasefire. Iranian barrages targeted Israel, Gulf Arab states and northern Iraq on Tuesday, while Israeli and US warplanes struck across Iran. What Mr Trump’s statement did was to narrow US targets to exclude power plants and energy ...

In Praise Of Senator John Fetterman

When the Senate voted last week on a resolution intended to limit the president’s authority to continue military operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the outcome was predictable: Democrats largely supported the measure as a check on the Trump Administration, while Republicans ...

We Are Owed Coherent Reason For Iran Strikes

Can anyone reading this editorial right now explain, clearly and succinctly, why the U.S. is currently engaged in an open-ended military operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran? If you said yes, congratulations — you’re doing better than the Trump administration. President Donald ...

Illegal War Is Becoming The New Norm

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by a US-Israeli strike is a targeted assassination of a head of state. It also marks a grave escalation in a region already burdened with smouldering wars and fragile states. The consequences of the deliberate strike will ...