Opinion

Selling the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

The Wall Street Journal cites a poll by Quinnipiac University and Fox News that shows opposition to the new law outweighs support by 20 percent.

Trump challenges the unconquerable Seminole Nation

Alligator Alcatraz has caused President Donald Trump, DeSantis, and others within the MAGA establishment to become giddy in recent days.

Why is this dark money group fighting healthcare reform?

Earlier this year, an investigative journalist at Searchlight New Mexico unearthed unethical and misleading behavior by NMSOP and revealed deep ties between NMSOP and the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association, whose members feel threatened by the proposed reforms.

Living day-to-day with a “busload of faith”

Trip Jennings A friend who wrote searing, sometimes grisly Facebook posts as he dug out from Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic destruction around Asheville, N.C. last autumn took to the social media platform this weekend.

Corrupt nincompoops, toadies and public servants

Western New Mexico University has now been investigated by four state agencies and sued by two of them.

Let heroes be heroes

Recently, I stood in the smoke-shadowed foothills near the Gila, watching the Hotshot crews return from another 16-hour shift fighting the Trout Fire.

Independence Day, July 4, 2025

“... it was the epoch of belief...”

What happened to Ukraine coverage?

In recent weeks the media again has been pre-occupied by celebrities, including the ones attending the Bezos-Sanchez wedding in Venice, and the “news” that it took 900 hours to make the bride’s dress.

In the end, everyone hated the Iranian theocracy

Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar -- the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out -- and a ceasefire.

Let’s have an honest debate on public lands

I came across this information last week while I was researching the Depression and was surprised to learn that we’ve been having pretty much the same arguments over public lands for the better part of a century.

Congress must act to pull USPS back from the brink

Congress has a key role to play in helping him right the ship but must get off the sidelines and act.

The world is on fire in 2025

The United States has been at war off and on for a quarter century. It feels like forever.

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