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RUGY: $2 trillion — and no excuse

The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional Budget Office released last Thursday. Only the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were worse. Today, though, there is no recession and no emergency. These enormous ...

Guest opinion: The rise of the self-serve patient

Patients aren't waiting for permission anymore. Medicine's job is to make sure they don't get hurt along the way.  Your patient already Googled it  Here's a conversation I have more and more. Someone tells me they've been exhausted for months. Before I can ask a single question, they tell ...

WILLIAMS: What voters see in the parties

The November midterm vote will be shaped less by party slogans than by the judgments voters make about their daily lives: whether prices feel manageable, whether their communities feel safe, and whether Washington is listening. Neither party can assume that frustration with its opponent ...

HARROP: MAGA masculinity: Protesting too much

We've seen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lifting weights in snug Levis, sweat pouring down his naked muscled chest. Last February, the secretary of health and human services was "giving body" in the "Rock Out Workout" video. A jeans-clad Kennedy flexes alongside Kid Rock in black shorts, then strips ...

PARKER: Internet scammers need oversight

Americans lose billions of dollars every year to online scams, and the problem is getting worse. A recent report from the Consumer Federation of America found that Americans lost an estimated $148 billion to "online scams and crimes" in 2025, an increase of nearly 26% from the year ...