Drug pricing proposal would undo historic progress on generics

Senate Democrats and White House officials are hastily piecing together a revised version of the Build Back Better Act, after Senator Joe Manchin announced he couldn’t support the version passed by the House.

Time for change in Texas

An often-heard rallying cry by conservative Republicans is that we need term limits for those holding political office.

China: more than meets the spy

Whenever the U.S. goes head-to-head with China at the Olympics, there’s always an intense competitiveness between the two sports superpowers. But that rivalry extends to a lot more than the Games, as FBI Director Christopher Wray has spelled out in terrifying detail.

Voter ID requirements make sense

A young man who looks like a teenager walks into a liquor store and pulls a bottle of cheap whiskey off a shelf. He puts it down at the checkout counter and pulls out his wallet. The clerk at the counter looks at him skeptically. “Can I see your ID?” he asks.

Trans athletes, the New York Times and the Ivy League

How individuals and institutions react to Lia Thomas, the biological male who is allowed to compete in women’s college swim competitions, is a good indicator of people’s values and level of rationality.

Why the masked and unmasked have disdain for each other

Among the many divides between Americans is a completely antithetical view of mask wearing. On one side are those who wear masks almost everywhere outside their homes and who demand that others do so, including young children in class and on outdoor playgrounds, and 2-year-olds on airplanes.

Debt up $2 trillion in one year

When President Joe Biden was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2021, the federal government’s debt stood at $27,751,896,236,414.77. When his first year in office ended on Jan. 20, 2022, it stood at $29,867,021,509,573.92.

Biden, TSA give illegals freedom to fly

Last week the Transportation Security Administration confirmed it has allowed illegal immigrants to use their arrest warrants as a valid proof of ID to board flights in the United States for more than a year.

Breyer beware: Biden looks for woke justices

When Chief Justice John Roberts was asked what he’ll miss most about his retiring colleague, Justice Stephen Breyer, Roberts said Breyer is a dear friend with a “surprisingly comprehensive collection of riddles and knock-knock jokes.” Now, the real riddle is his replacement.

King of the bungle

The kinder reviews said it “didn’t go quite as planned.” But for anyone else tuning in to the longest presidential news conference in history, it was a disaster of epic proportions. The White House had been shielding Joe Biden from the press for months. And now we all understand why.