Editorials

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. After every indictment that has come his way, Trump has boasted that his standing among Republicans only improves — and he has a point. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans — 63% — say they want the former president to run again, according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) **FILE**

The Georgia charade: More charges against Trump imperil democratic process

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Elected Democrats are giddy that another left-wing prosecutor has lodged criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.

New York Mayor Eric Adams listens while a sign language interpreter translate reporters questions during a City Hall press conference, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2023, in New York. Adams is calling on the federal government to declare a national emergency to ease the financial crisis the city is facing as it struggles to accommodate thousands of arriving migrants. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Biden’s open border angering Democrats

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

New York Mayor Eric Adams estimates that nearly 100,000 asylum-seekers arrived in the Big Apple in the last year alone, at a cost to the city of over $12 billion by 2025. Now, the mayor is begging for federal help.

Hunter Biden talks with guests before President Joe Biden offers a toast during a State Dinner for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Americans need answers on Biden influence-peddling allegations

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

FILE - Postmaster General of the United States Louis DeJoy speaks during a news conference, Dec. 20, 2022, in Washington. DeJoy said there is new “energy, focus and improvement” across the U.S. Postal Service, and he has also touted upcoming electric delivery trucks as making the Postal Service a leader in carbon footprint reduction. DeJoy made the upbeat report to the Board of Postal Governors on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Postal Service chief fails to deliver promised reforms

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Illustration on the importance of the 2014 midterm elections by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Healing the election-integrity divide

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

U.S. President Joe Biden, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting in Bali, Indonesia Nov. 14, 2022. Leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies are generally united in voicing concern about China. The question is how to translate that worry into action. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Biden's haplessness, China's malevolence

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

China's shadowy hostility toward the United States is hard to miss.

FILE - This satellite image made by the Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 shows the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano at the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. The volcano shot millions of tons of water vapor high up into the atmosphere according to a study published Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, in the journal Science. Researchers estimate the event raised the amount of water in the stratosphere - the second layer of the atmosphere, above the range where humans live and breathe - by around 5%. (Japan Meteorology Agency via AP)

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Global boiling' is hemispheric hype

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Policy shapers have been highlighting the scorching discomfort of summer to drive home their argument that it's past time to abandon fossil fuels and dial back the heat they insist has been altering the world's climate.

FILE - A line of electric cars and newly installed charging stations sit in front of the Portland General Electric headquarters building on July 28, 2015, in Portland, Ore. Policymakers for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, approved a rule that prohibits the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles in Oregon by 2035. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

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Biden admin accelerating the electric car fad

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

The administration has just mashed the accelerator in its relentless drive to outlaw affordable cars and the freedom they represent.

In this Nov. 2, 2017, photo, Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, speaks with reporters following a day of questions from the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

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End DOJ's spy games

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Congress has until year's end to decide whether federal agents will retain their breathtaking capacity to snoop on the public.

Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters about charges against former President Donald Trump, in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Justice Department's latest Trump charges interfering in elections

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

A day after a key eyewitness testified President Biden participated in his son Hunter's pay-for-access scheme with foreign business entities, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith decided to indict former President Donald Trump.

Illustration on "Transgenderism" and children by Alexander Hunter/ The Washington Times

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A 'gender-affirming care' fad gone bad

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

A brief foray into fantasy can sometimes be therapeutic.

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden leaves after a court appearance, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Del. The plea deal in Hunter Biden’s criminal case unraveled during a court hearing Wednesday after a federal judge raised concerns about the terms of the agreement that has infuriated Republicans who believe the president’s son is getting preferential treatment. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Bidens demonstrate why Washington needs term limits

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Hunter Biden's misadventures have entered a new chapter in which the first son may yet wind up a convict.

Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., April 24, 2015. The Biden administration is proposing new rules for the nation’s oil and gas leasing program that would raise costs for energy companies to drill on public lands and strengthen requirements for cleaning up old wells where drilling is completed or abandoned. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) **FILE**

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Biden's balk at energy independence

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

The ups and downs of energy prices have been mostly up over the last 2 1/2 years. And that's no accident.

FILE - A &quot;for sale&quot; sign hangs from a post outside of a vacant business building in Belleville, N.J., Thursday, May 3, 2018. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday, July 27, raised its benchmark interest rate by a hefty three-quarters of a point for a second straight time in its most aggressive drive in three decades to tame high inflation. By raising borrowing rates, the Fed makes it costlier to take out a mortgage or an auto or business loan.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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Government should go back to work

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

The government isn't working in Washington. That's not an opinion; that's a fact confirmed in a new Government Accountability Office study.

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America can't afford to lose conventional energy sources

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Energy ministers of the world's most prosperous nations declined to identify the immediate end of oil, natural gas, and coal as a worthy goal during a G20 working group meeting last week.