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Robbins: If Columbia’s the gem of the ocean, we’re in trouble

After Columbia University's president was filleted by a House Committee earlier this month and the spotlight was turned on the mobs taunting and intimidating Jewish students there, Columbia's faculty served angry notice that they expected to be in charge, not the university administration. ...

Hollis: The problem is academia

The explosion of violent and shockingly antisemitic protests on college campuses is just the latest in a series of self-inflicted black eyes for higher education in the United States. In March last year, a group of students at Stanford Law School shut down a talk by federal Judge Kyle Duncan, ...

Guest opinion: EPA short-circuits the US power grid

On April 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched a blitz of regulations targeting the nation’s fossil-fuel power plants. In the center of the EPA’s crosshairs is America’s coal fleet, which remains a workhorse source of power across the country — and the leading source of ...

Barone: A turning point for American foreign policy?

Was the passage by the House last Saturday and the Senate on Tuesday of the foreign aid package with money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan a turning point in American foreign policy? It certainly was a turnabout in rhetoric and in partisan behavior. House Speaker Mike Johnson led the narrowly ...

McCaughey: There’s no right to sleep outdoors

In a Supreme Court showdown Monday over whether the homeless have a "right" to camp in public, almost no one mentioned the actual victims of that crazy idea. Homeless advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, told the court that living on the streets is a "victimless" crime. ...