The United States Postal Service is on the brink of a selfinduced collapse. The failed policies of the Delivering for America Plan have driven away customers through a combination of sky-high rate increases and degraded service. David Steiner, who will take over as Postmaster General on July 14, 2025, has a tough job to do and little time to do it with some estimates indicating the USPS could be insolvent as soon as 2028. Congress has a key role to play in helping him right the ship but must get off the sidelines and act. A useful step occurred earlier this week with a hearing before the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations. The National Newspaper Association (NNA) provided a statement for the hearing that lays out key actions Congress can take to help restore the USPS.

Making sure the inherent needs of others are met before our own is what we should strive to do, especially when it comes to our own children.

MONTREAL – There’s been a lot of attention lately on one of the world’s bigmouths and his vision for space flight. It might be more profitable to listen to the thinking of one of the quiet men who knew, from hard-won experience, about travel in space, the meaning of such voyages and the lessons we on Earth might learn from them.

At a town hall meeting in the Pentagon last February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.’” Talk about dumb. Many former officers, who are now free to speak out, argue that Hegseth’s Holy War against diversity in the military is profoundly self-destructive. In the name of bolstering our nation’s defenses, he’s making them weaker, not stronger.