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GARVEY: An app a day keeps the parents away

Well, it's back-to-school season again, and parents across the country know what that means: It's time to download some new apps. Yes, you already have 10 apps; that's true. There's one for the park district, one for summer camp, one for your oldest kid's teacher to post weekly updates, ...

BARONE: Socialists shove the resistance aside in Florida

The most surprising result in the batch of primaries held this week over the vast stretch of America from Florida through Wyoming to Alaska was the defeat of famed anti-Trump whistleblower Alexander Vindman by state Rep. Angie Nixon in the contest for the Democratic nomination against ...

HARROP: The deadly pursuit of fame

The tragic deaths of Hayden Panettiere and Jason Arday can be tied to the same phenomenon. It's not new but has accelerated in today's influencer culture: youth's hunger for fame. Panettiere was an accomplished actress who, buried in depression and addiction, died from an apparent drug ...

DE RUGY: Those who build and the politicians who take

There's an old saying: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. A similar idea underscores the debate over wealth taxes in California and elsewhere: Those who can, build companies. Those who can't, devise ways for the government to take shares in what others have built. This new version ...

FELDKAMP: Life isn’t a race. My husband’s college degree reminded me why.

My husband graduated with his bachelor's degree this summer at the age of 56. We ordered a cake and celebrated with friends and family. He had earned his associate's degree in accounting literally decades ago and had plans to continue his education, but life detoured him, as it likes to do. ...

STOSSEL: Racist tests

Did you know that the SAT is racist? During Woke I, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, "antiracists" said the SAT's creators "were avowed eugenicists." No wonder Black people get lower scores. Even if the test isn't racist today, it still gives unfair advantages to white kids ...

PARKER: Wasserman Schultz spotlights a new Democratic Party dilemma

A contentious primary in Florida's 20th congressional district has shined a spotlight on the massive split in today's Democratic Party and has put Black voters there in a dilemma. After Florida recently changed its congressional maps, long-time Democratic operative Rep. Debbie Wasserman ...

MOORE: Net Zero is dead and gone

It was only a few years ago when the climate change alarms and green energy fad were all the rage at the White House and corporate board rooms. Former President Joe Biden's policies were all tilted to ending fossil fuels, and many of America's biggest corporations embraced the concept of ...

HARROP: Who can take AOC seriously?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has begun the process of freezing her eggs for future childbearing. Not only does AOC talk about it, she shares Instagram videos of her getting hormone shots in her belly. AOC is 36, approaching her later baby-making years. Frozen eggs can later be fertilized ...