THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

I had a really good ice-cream cone this week.

I suppose this does not qualify as news, but I try not to eat too much ice cream, and I don’t usually keep ice cream in my freezer because I have a tendency to eat it all right away.

I love ice cream. I have always loved ice cream. But I have noticed my tendency to eat it until my face goes numb and have avoided it. When I’m in Mexico, I walk by an ice-cream shop every night, where I have bought ice cream before. It is good. So almost every night, when I get to the ice-cream shop, I pause, and I ask myself, “Should I get ice cream tonight?”

GUEST COLUMN, Sally C. Pipes

Affordability is on the lips of lawmakers these days -- and with good reason. Nearly half of Americans say they're struggling to pay for basic necessities like rent, groceries, and health care.

The good news is that Congress is weighing several reforms that could help make health care in particular more affordable.

Many of the drivers of today's sky-high healthcare costs are a direct result of Obamacare. The 2010 law made it all but impossible -- and in some cases illegal -- for insurers to offer low-cost plans. Predictably, individual-market premiums have tripled since the law's exchanges went online more than a decade ago.

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris

During the Clinton years, State of the Union speeches routinely led to huge upticks in the president’s approval ratings. But in the highly polarized and fiercely partisan environment of today’s politics, they have had little impact other than to reinforce partisan differences among voters.

Trump’s State of the Union speech last week is the exception. Polling by Harvard-Harris, the best firm out there (except for John McLaughlin), shows a mammoth change favoring Republicans after the speech. The GOP went from an 8 point deficit to a tie in voting preferences in the midterm elections. A huge change reminiscent of the swings we used to get in the 90s.

GUEST COLUMN, Jared Whitley, Townhall.com

The military strikes President Trump ordered against Iran are a stark reminder of a decades-long geopolitical reality: the stability of the Persian Gulf region is anchored by the resolve of America and the men and women of its military.

By moving aggressively to neutralize a regime bent on provoking regional instability and destroying Saudi Arabia, its chief rival in the Muslim world, the United States has also demonstrated its commitment to an American-Saudi friendship that has flourished under President Trump.