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Trump’s rhetoric and the politics of death Editor: In his address to the nation, President Trump said the U.S. would bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, "where they belong." He even threatened to destroy "electric generating plants." What would this mean for the most vulnerable, such as hospital patients, the elderly, and newborns in intensive care? Historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe, author of Necropolitics, coined the term “death-worlds” to describe how the powerful impose conditions that amount to a living death. Mbembe writes, “The ultimate expression of ...

Mona Charen

Columns

I am an Iran hardliner. But I'm struggling to understand how other hardliners can be so credulous about President Donald Trump's leadership of this war. It's as if you were stranded by the side of the road and accepted a ride from an obviously drunk driver. Earlier this month, the Wall ...

Tim Graham

Columns

Don't look now, but FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Jim Acosta agree on something: President Donald Trump is "winning" his effort to reshape the media landscape in his second term. Appearing on the "Power Lines" podcast with his fellow ardent leftists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino, Acosta ...

The Raffel Ticket

Columns

My first thought when sitting down to write this column was that Donald Trump is his own worst enemy. However, after 8 million people showed up on March 28 to oppose him and his policies, it appears he has some stiff competition for the title. Still, I'll allow Trump to make the case against ...

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Columns

"That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves." — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, ...

Letter to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Editor: Everywhere in the world, indigenous societies that persisted for thousands of years knew and respected the land they occupied, including its wild inhabitants. March is Women’s History month, and here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan two 19th century women quietly honored both the Anishinaabe and European cultures.  Jane Johnston (1800-1842) was born in Sault Ste. Marie to a Native mother and Scots-Irish father. Her native name meant “Woman of the sound the stars make when rushing through the sky.” She collected Ojibway legends and shared them with her husband, Henry ...