Opinion

Just a few weeks after launch, plenty of questions remain about whether the private school tax credit program is doing what GOP lawmakers promised. Does it really help families of modest means afford private school?

Dear Annie: I met my husband eight years ago. When I agreed to marry him, I had a great relationship with his two kids from his previous marriage. At the time we got married, they were 7 and 4 years old.

At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent trailing, both parties seem bent on nominating two men who have served as president and about whom substantial majorities of voters have negative feelings. What gives?

“There’s a recklessness in the air in America” was the elegant yet apt way ABC News journalist Terry Moran put it on Friday evening. Moran made the observation in the context of Rudy Giuliani’s misbegotten belief that he could egregiously defame two Georgia poll workers and get away with it. He didn’t. The “Say Anything” ethos Giuliani appears to have absorbed from former President Donald Trump backfired spectacularly on New York’s former mayor, who was hit by a defamation verdict against him of $148 million, and that’s a whole lot of hair dye.

Dear Annie: I’m writing to respond to the post about “Godmother Goes Awry,” in which a mother was very upset that a godmother would not co-sign for her daughter. The daughter was requesting a co-signer to rent an apartment. The mother was enraged that the godmother declined.

It’s being said by conservatives and liberals: America faces a crisis of affordable housing. And the way out of it is to build more houses.

When the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act in July, the American Civil Liberties Union -- a liberal organization -- sent a letter to members of the House. It expressed their opposition to a number of amendments being considered for the act.

Dear Annie: My nephew will be getting married in a couple of months. They are trying to stick to a budget. On their wedding website, there is a “question-and-answer” page with details for the big day. It clearly states that although they love children, it is an adults only event. It also states that plus ones are not invited.

No one should trust our “mainstream media” in defining where the “center” of politics is from their perch on the left-wing fringes. No one should trust them to define who is “nonpartisan” and who is “independent.” The way they classify political actors is subtle, and yet blatantly unfair and unbalanced.

Former President Barack Obama talked the talk in poetry. President Joe Biden walks the walk in prose.