Froma Harrop

This may sound counterintuitive, but the shutdowns that greatly constricted physical contact with others actually boosted requests for facelifts and other cosmetic procedures.

The vaccinated half is moving forward, and the unvaccinated half is falling behind. What a strange place we've become.

How often must people of color save the Democratic Party from its left fringe? As often as they have to, unfortunately.

There's no need here to spin a morality tale about the evils of great wealth. The case for raising taxes on those who could most easily pay them is good.

With a few exceptions, Republicans simply aren't interested in doing the work on health care, which requires accepting trade-offs.

Economic nationalism is the future.

Get the shot or don't. Just don't overestimate how much we who have done our personal and civic duty really care.

We who got comfortable in the Land of Plenty may have to change our assumptions.

If Republicans don't want to help construct a respected explanation of the awful events of Jan. 6, then fine. Democrats will be happy to do it.

Some Republican operatives may hope that the voters will have relegated the Jan. 6 outrage to "the past." Good luck with that.

Commonly quoted stats are dribbling in, but because they are being compared to those of the wildly abnormal pandemic year of 2020, what should we do with them?

Liz Cheney is not headed for the political wilderness. She is destined for the history books.

While sex scandals are colorful and easy to understand, they tend to evaporate.

As the 2022 midterms approach, Democrats would do well to turn down the volume on Twitter and visit voters where they really live.

Corporations that defend the democracy are seeing to their own interests. But they may save us all.

When voters have had a say, the far left has failed to get rid of Andrew Cuomo.

Andrew Cuomo very well may have said the inappropriate things being reported, but none of the women were physically harmed by what was at most unwanted flirtation.

Donald Trump finally made me smile, because he no longer matters.

Britney's fans have their own lives, and their trials and heartbreak are as real as hers.

President Joe Biden has his critics on the left and right, but few would question his seriousness about getting people vaccinated.

Are we at the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

What did I need any typewriter for?

There has to be some national base rate for a human being's labor.

From a purely political perspective, the more Republican crazies make the world wonder about them, the better it is for Democrats.

Americans are putting their consumer dollars on the side of democracy.

Electric cars are coming at us fast.

The debate over the Keystone XL pipeline had its day.

The Proud Boys are now saying in online posts that the group should drop politics and abandon both parties.

President Joe Biden must apply muscle as well as heart at the border or his best plans will fall apart.

It was not Donald Trump's fault that coal was dying. It was his fault that he lied about being able to save it and then lied that he had.