Cal Thomas is a syndicated columnist, author, and broadcaster. He has authored several books, including “America's Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers and the Future of the United States." Readers can email him at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.
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It is not cognitive dissonance—the impossibility of holding two or more contradictory beliefs simultaneously—to favor the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress and… Read More
EconomyCommentary
If anything good can come from the coronavirus pandemic, it is the revelation of America’s overreliance on China, especially when it comes to drugs. Interviewed… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Just when you may have thought that the low quality of political rhetoric in Washington could not get any worse, along comes Senate Minority Leader… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
For 68 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a political oasis, a chance for Republicans, Democrats, and national and world leaders to assemble and… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat met at Camp David where Barak offered… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I love definitions because they help focus the mind. For decades, we are said to have been in a culture war. As in any war,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The contrast could not have been starker. One picture showed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi smiling as she signed (with numerous pens) two articles of impeachment… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Addressing the British Parliament in 1982, President Ronald Reagan outlined a plan for placing the Soviet Union and Marxism-Leninism on the “ash heap of history.”… Read More
SocietyCommentary
It can be useful and instructive to observe the turning of a decade by looking back on what life was like in America a mere… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The battle between church and state is as old as church and state, as is the conflict within religious circles over who supposedly speaks for… Read More
