Articles filed under Commentary
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India's experience has lessons for U.S. democracy
Jan 17, 2021 1:00 AM - Guest columnist Javeed Akhter: The frenzied mob trashing the Capitol reminded me instantly of the mob that destroyed a historic mosque, called the Babri Masjid, in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya, on Dec 6, 1992. -
Things I never told Sheldon Adelson
Jan 17, 2021 1:00 AM - Columnist Debra J. Saunders: The knives were out for me in January 2017 when I arrived in Washington as the White House correspondent for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. -
Don't hate the political players; hate the political game
Jan 15, 2021 1:00 AM - Veronique de Rugy: Many Americans are very upset that President-elect Joe Biden will replace President Donald Trump. For most of them, it's not that they will miss Trump's unconventional and often unacceptable behavior. Instead, it's that they fear that the size and scope of government will grow so fast that it will permanently change the country they love. -
To persuade is the highest goal of newspaper editorials
Jan 14, 2021 9:06 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: Persuasion has been called a "gentle art." More often, people approach it with a fiery hammer.
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Source of income discrimination -- let's end it
Jan 13, 2021 1:00 AM - Guest columnist Evelyn Sanguinetti: In the age of coronavirus and with an economy on the brink of catastrophe, none of us can afford to turn our noses up at government aid. -
Will Democrats ditch a policy that's produced more equal incomes?
Jan 13, 2021 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Barone: The policies of defeated one-term presidents are not as easily reversed as their victorious successors, suffused with campaign rhetoric, sometimes suppose they will be. -
Rushed justice reform bill will endanger society
Jan 12, 2021 1:00 AM - Guest columnists state Senators John Curran and Steve McClure: Recently, a 611-page criminal justice reform bill, HB163, was filed for a three-day "lame-duck" legislative session -
'Golden boy' will restore AG to its original role
Jan 12, 2021 1:00 AM - Columnist Susan Estrich: Amid Wednesday's riots, President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general was not the front-page story it otherwise would have been. -
Growing hybrid politics
Jan 10, 2021 1:00 AM - Guest columnist George Ball: The 117th Congress has convened. Let's raise a toast to this newly hatched deliberative body and bid a fond farewell to the 116th, the least productive session in Congress's 230 years. -
How to start a civil war
Jan 10, 2021 1:00 AM - Columnist Debra J. Saunders: One thing the right always had claim to was the belief that -- unlike Black Lives Matter and social justice protests -- Tea Party and later MAGA rallies were peaceful, if at times profane, political speech.
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