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De Rugy: The unserious new Republican budget plan

Serious problems should be met with serious solutions. We have serious problems, namely a fast-growing debt and a need to extend some tax cuts in an unforgiving environment where interest rates are high and inflation is rising again. Unfortunately, despite a new mandate, House Republicans have ...

Stiehm: A crisis president comes to town

A bright, clear Presidents' Day in Washington: a perfect moment in time and place to say what makes the best and worst of presidents. For historians, the pattern is indelible. The American people show who the great presidents are, because they bring out the best in us. The opposite is also ...

Stossel: What’s on your plate?

I tried meat grown in a lab. It tastes like ... well ... meat. I guess it is meat, but it's not grown the normal way. Scientists extract meat cells from an animal and then grow them in a bioreactor, much like ones you see in a brewery. There, the cells divide again and again until you get ...

Barone: Why were hopes of the 1990s dashed?

As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed liberties and global capitalism laced with some measure of welfare state protections would spread across the globe, I naturally look back over the intervening long ...

Guest opinion: The broken 340B drug program in Utah

Utah is not exempt from a nationwide trend. Rising health care costs have crippled small businesses and working families. The crisis demands systemic change; on this, most Republicans and Democrats agree. And yet, special interest groups refuse to read the room, shamelessly pushing for ...