So long as we can continue to publish, your civil comments backed by facts are welcome here. Which means, both the right column and the left column. 

For this column, conservatives of both the pro-MAGA and the anti-Trump stripes are welcome.

For the left column, we welcome moderates and the far left, and everyone in-between.

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The Hustings is designed to spark civil discourse and honest debate among citizens who will certainly disagree on news and issues. Scroll down with the track bar on the far right to read recent debates and commentaries including …

•Pundit-at-Large Stephen Macaulay’s “This is Strategy?” questioning the White House whipsawing of tariffs, specifically the temporary suspension of tariffs on Chinese-imported smartphones, computers and semiconductors. 

•Contributing Pundit Rich Corbett on how tariffs could prompt the return of American manufacturing in “Should the US Play the Tariff Game?”

•In the left column, do not miss commentaries by contributing pundits Hugh Hansen, Sharon Lintner and Jim McCraw under the heading “About Those Tariffs.” Macaulay has a column about long-term implications for the US’s future economic leadership in the corresponding right column, “Trump Trashes Trust.”