Opinion Columns

Enemy of the People
Linda Chavez, Oct. 12, 2018
When President Donald Trump called the press the "enemy of the people," he wasn't only speaking to his pep rally audience. Autocr

What if the President and the Senate Just Pulled a Fast One?
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Oct. 11, 2018
What if the whole purpose of an independent judiciary is to be anti-democratic? What if its job is to disregard politics? What if its duty is to preserve the liberties of the minority — even a minority of one — from the tyranny of the majority? What if that tyranny can come from unjust laws or a just law's unjust enforcement? What if we have a right to insist that judges be neutral and open-minded rather than partisan and predisposed to a particular ideology? What if presidential candidates promise to nominate judges and justices who they believe will embrace certain ideologies? What if history shows that Supreme Court justices appointed by Democratic presidents typically stay faithful to their pre-judicial ideologies? What if history shows that justices appointed by Republican presidents tend to migrate leftward, toward the middle of the ideological spectrum? What if some Republican-appointed justices — such as Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony M. Kennedy and David So

Even Birth Control Is Under Attack
Froma Harrop, Oct. 11, 2018
There was a time when Republicans and Democrats generally agreed that access to birth control was a public good. Most saw preventing unwanted pregnancies as key to making abortions rare. Those