Opinion

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Opinion: Will Americans accept Trump’s attacks on the pope?

There are moments in political life when rhetoric stops being merely provocative and begins to test the boundaries of institutional respect. President Donald J. Trump’s attack on a sitting pope invites comparison to one of the most consequential overreaches in modern American history: when ...

Opinion: 5 important myths about taxes

Every April, Americans spend more than 7 billion hours filing taxes and roughly the same amount of time arguing over them, almost entirely on the basis of several common myths. Here are the five most consequential. • Myth No. 1: The Rich Don’t Pay Their Fair Share This is the most ...

Opinion: Beware of this American heresy

The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most ...

Opinion: As gas prices rise, electric cars keep saving money

Gasoline prices have surged to their highest levels since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has me feeling pretty good about my electric vehicle purchase. I know that utility prices are also on the rise, but being able to plug my car in at home instead of paying horrid prices at the pump has still ...

Opinion: Trump’s strategy: blame, reorganize, repeat

Perhaps it’s time for Donald Trump to prepare three envelopes and stick them in the top drawer of the Resolute Desk. What am I talking about? There’s an old business joke about a company’s new president inheriting a mess. His predecessor leaves behind three envelopes for “when things ...

Opinion: When the president attacks the pope

Call him the “antisocial” media president. When a president attacks the pope, he telegraphs: “There’s nothing I won’t do or say.” That is a profoundly troubling message. There are no lines I won’t cross, no rules I won’t break, President Donald Trump is telling the whole ...