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Mothers go to space

Someone missed the space travel invite, and she doesn’t seem happy about it. Actress Olivia Munn recently ripped into the all-female crew set to take an 11-minute flight through the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday in a Blue Origin rocket. “There’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs,” Munn complained on TODAY with Jenna […]

When the Navy hit the charts

In a recent column, I wrote about my friend, Lt. David Pingenot, who joined the U.S. Navy in 1965 partly to see a body of water larger than the Iowa stretch of the Cedar River. Pingenot became a technician for the sound surveillance system, which utilized a system of hydrophones that monitored sound channels in […]

Gentle problem-solving

“The slower you do things,” a very wise person once told me, “the more time you seem to have.” This is excellent advice. I tend to rush through things — meals, museums, writing columns — on the mistaken belief that if I can just do everything faster, I’ll have more time for other things. It’s […]

Does Trump’s birthright citizenship order create a ‘birth tax’?

President Donald Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship could lead to a "birth tax", a policy think tank believes

Trump’s East Asia policy is incoherent

The tariff regime is a catastrophically contradictory counterpart to the painstaking East Asian security agreements,

US-China trade war escalates as Beijing hikes tariffs to 125 percent

President Trump's trade war with China was escalated once again Friday morning, after Beijing hiked tariffs on U.S goods to 125 percent. This time, however, China's Ministry of Finance said the new import tax rate would be final and it would no longer engage in the revolving door of tariff hikes. The updated tariffs are...

Whole Hog Politics: What do Democrats really want?

On the menu: Tillis draws a top Dem opponent; Paxton, Cornyn headed for brutal battle; old is out for Dem challengers; fat suits; sign of the times  Politics is like investing or shooting skeet: You don’t want to be on the target, you want to be just ahead of it. In our crazy, fugazi, reverse-engineered...

Trump is repeating one of the darkest chapters in US history 

During World War II, the United States used the Alien Enemies Act and Executive Order 9066 to undercut civil rights and imprison innocent people and families in squalid camps. Using the Alien Enemies Act today to usurp our existing immigration laws and scapegoat immigrants repeats this shameful chapter.

Trump is not Joe Biden — Putin should take note

President Trump is working to bring an end to the Ukraine war by negotiating a ceasefire and providing lethal military aid, while also seeking to improve relations with Russia and opening the door for future military aid.

Our sudden plane crash epidemic is no accident

In the first quarter of 2025 alone, more than 170 aviation accidents occurred in the U.S., with 22 resulting in fatalities and 109 deaths. As a pilot and executive in the aviation industry with 27 years of experience, I am often asked: Why are there so many accidents and incidents in aviation today? To answer...

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