President Trump thought he could negotiate peace in Ukraine with his friend Vladimir Putin, and perhaps it was worth a shot. Yet the Russian has offered nothing but brutal escalation for eight months, and now…

President Donald Trump is trying to stop $4 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid from being spent, without Congress’s permission.  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. this week allowed him to pause the spending, but…

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists robbed America of more than 3,000 lives, wounding our nation in a way we had not known since the shock of Pearl Harbor.  In bringing down the World Trade Center, damaging the…

In 1979, I bought my first parcel of farmland. It was near Tribune, and I was a proud new landowner. As I recall, the purchase price was $350 per acre. Today, that land is probably…

Dear editor, I like the idea of keeping recycling a volunteer-based effort.   I don’t agree with using a city employee and a county employee to assist, and I don’t want to see our trash…

President Trump says that foreign countries, not Americans, will pay his border taxes. But a new analysis by Anderson Economic Group shows how his auto tariffs on Mexico and Canada are starting to bite U.S.…

The sweeping ICE operation in Georgia Thursday that rounded up some 475 illegal workers at a showcase development project is intended as a warning to employers nationwide.  It also illustrates the America First contradiction of…

There is no shortage of reasons to protect farmworkers.  Our agriculture industry, responsible for food production and by extension food prices, relies on a myriad of factors, including a stable labor source. Farmworkers are not…

If proponents of posting the Ten Commandments in public schools are to be believed, the moral development of Texas children in 11 school districts  lags those of other Texas schoolchildren as of Monday.   We…

Americans are frustrated with health care, and rightly so. It’s expensive, confusing and often unfair. I’ve written about its flaws for years. But as calls grow to burn it all down, we risk losing the…