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Welch: State’s climate act hides cost to gas and its spending

The CCA is at least partly to blame for the highest gas price in the U.S. Is it delivering cleaner air?

Friedman: Peace that Trump should seek is in his own land

It’s in his power to call for his political allies and opponents to stand together and speak against violence.

Harrop: Murder can’t be erased; why lighten its sentences?

Yes, mental illness by those convicted of violence should be treated. But should release follow?

Stephens: Recognizing Palestine does nothing for Palestinians

It and other virtue signaling that condemns Israel fosters antisemitism and offers no hope for resolution.

Krsitof: Russia’s drone incursion into Poland demands response

The U.S. and NATO can’t let Putin’s testing of boundaries go with only indignant social media posts.

Saunders: Even if RFK Jr. wrong on vaccines, he’s right on autonomy

Americans understand what the covid vaccines offer; they can decide whether to get the jab or not.

Douthat: Why Charlie Kirk’s message resonated with young right

His was a different kind of campus conservatism, both rebellious, relaxed and approachable.

Klein: Charlie Kirk lived for the right to argue; we all should

You don’t have to agree with any of his opinions to see the danger to all in his violent silencing.

Schwab: Flattery gets one everything if you’re Putin or Trump

Putin puffed up Trump to get what he wanted; Trump has made puffery the coin of his realm.

Douthat: Trump’s imperial presidency may not end with him

Unless Congress or the Supreme Court rein him in, the next president, regardless of party, benefits.

Burke: The familiar adjectives of Lawrence of Arabia

The title character’s admonition to Sherif Ali — silly, greedy, barbarous and cruel — seems apt right now.

Harrop: Even the tourists are tired of crowds of tourists

And some seem more interested in making social media posts than actually enjoying the sights and culture.

Harrop: The secession of Blue America from Red has begun

This may be how it starts; with like-minded states setting policy that was once federal domain.

Kristof: A genocide that no one disputes, nor moves to end

Ethnic cleansing in Sudan has killed at least 400,000. No one seems motivated to end it.

Goldberg: Epstein’s victims won’t let Trump push their story aside

‘Secrecy only allows for conspiracy theorists to tell lies that drives up our anxiety and fears,’ warned one.

Schwab: An opportunistic infection in a weakened body politic

Republicans in the Senate could have stopped RFK Jr.’s deadly spread, but Trumpism weakened them, too.

Stephens: Mass migration has been undoing of liberal democracy

By not seeking the consent of the governed on immigration, the West has invited the threat of populism.

Welch: Blame a math mismatch for county’s budget deficit

The county promised more in pay than revenues now allow. It’s a problem it can avoid in the future.

Dowd: As Trump promised, RFK Jr. has ‘gone wild’ on nation’s health

So ‘wild’ that Kennedy has canceled vaccine research, limited access to shots and said he can spot illness on sight.

Saunders: Gender politics intrude, even as motive was sheer evil

Some media outlets appeared to sidestep the issue of the gender of the shooter in Minneapolis.