Steve Chapman – Page 11

Vice President Kamala Harris leaves the U.S. Capitol after presiding over a failed procedural vote on voting rights legislation on Jan. 19, 2022.

Column: Can Kamala Harris break a tie vote on Biden’s Supreme Court nomination?

January 28, 2022 at 3:45 p.m.

With a Democrat in the White House and Democrats effectively controlling the Senate, Republicans might have figured they were bound to lose the coming Supreme Court battle. But on Thursday,...

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in Montgomery, Alabama, on Sept. 21, 2017.

Column: Sarah Palin’s libel suit against The New York Times could stifle political debate

January 26, 2022 at 1:29 p.m.

Sarah Palin was supposed to be in court this week, and not because she's been indicted for criminal incompetence and felonious egomania. The former Alaska governor is suing an organ...

President Joe Biden answers questions during a White House news conference Jan. 19. Biden is approaching the end of his first year in the Oval Office with inflation rising and his legislative agenda stalled on Capitol Hill.

Column: The gap between Biden’s promises and his performance

January 21, 2022 at 1:31 p.m.

At President Joe Biden's Wednesday news conference, a reporter cited a list of recent misfortunes before asking mournfully: "Did you overpromise to the American public what you could achieve in...

A grocery store on the Upper West Side of New York on Jan. 12, 2022. The 7% increase in the Labor Department's consumer price index over the 12 months to December was the highest since June 1982.

Column: Price controls are no remedy for inflation

January 19, 2022 at 4:33 p.m.

There are some notions so thunderously discredited by experience that they may never be revived. No serious person still believes that lead can be turned into gold, that astrologers can...

A person donates blood during a Children's Hospital Los Angeles blood donation drive outside the Crypto.com Arena on Jan. 13, 2022, in Los Angeles.

Column: Amid a dire blood shortage, let gay men donate

January 14, 2022 at 5:34 p.m.

In 2016, a mass shooter at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killed 49 people and wounded another 53. The need for blood was urgent, and thousands of people...

Peg and Rich shoot up a mix of heroin and fentanyl on a street in Kensington on July 19, 2021, in Philadelphia. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, over 93,000 people died from a drug overdose last year in America.

Column: The other deadly plague is only getting worse

January 12, 2022 at 12:50 p.m.

Long before the arrival of COVID-19, America was being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. Unlike the coronavirus, though, the drug overdose plague didn't elicit a massive response from public officials....

Richard Nixon, right, lost the 1960 presidential election by a minuscule margin, and many Republicans suspected that corrupt shenanigans tipped Illinois and Texas to John F. Kennedy, left. But Nixon firmly rebuffed pleas for him to challenge the outcome.

Column: The damage to the 2024 election has already been done

January 5, 2022 at 3:17 p.m.

The 2016 presidential election may be remembered as the last one in which the voters on the losing side trusted the result. It used to be the unquestioned norm. But...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Joe Biden meet at the "Villa la Grange" on June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Column: Biden and Putin could end the Ukraine crisis with a simple agreement

December 31, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

A 19th-century Mexican president once summarized his country's plight: "So far from God, so close to the United States." Ukraine has the same problem, but with Russia. And its geographic...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser, left, and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky arrive to participate in a White House COVID-19 Response Team call with the National Governors Association on Dec. 27, 2021.

Column: Dr. Fauci is wrong to encourage a vaccine mandate for domestic air travelers

December 29, 2021 at 3:16 p.m.

Most children learn that while a few pieces of candy are a treat, eating a whole bag can be misery. Most adults understand that taking a multivitamin every day may...

Missouri running back Tyler Badie, center, scores a touchdown past Central Michigan's Donte Kent, left, during an NCAA college football game Sept. 4, 2021, in Columbia, Missouri.

Column: With the glut of bowl games, some players wisely take a pass

December 24, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

College football's bowl season is upon us, raising the question: If the RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl ceased to exist, would anyone notice? But occasionally, these games produce news that deserves...

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