Opinion Columns
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What voters don’t know … yetMay 16, 2024 6:15 pm - The problem with early polls is just that. They are taken early, and they are a snapshot of what voters know and think at the time they are taken. Which may be wrong. Bec...
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Just among us friends, some words about news principlesMay 15, 2024 8:00 pm - You might think it goes without saying, but just in case it doesn’t, let me say it. The way David Pecker and Michael Cohen describe efforts to use the National Enquirer t...
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American gold: At age 100, Lt. Benjamin inspires stillMay 15, 2024 7:47 pm - If 100 can be said to be the new 70, Lt. Alfred D. Benjamin of the Army Air Corps' 384th Bomb Group has to be the expression's poster boy. Ramrod-straight and sharp as th...
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Protest much? An academic reckoning is overdueMay 15, 2024 7:33 pm - WASHINGTON — The Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition issued five demands: that Columbia divest assets that benefit from “Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupa...
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No Good AnswersMay 14, 2024 3:54 pm - There are no good answers to the current situation in the Gaza War. President Joe Biden is trying to use a pause in weapons shipments to force Israel to do more to protec...
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Moving away from the template of ‘oppressor vs. oppressed’May 14, 2024 3:50 pm - The violent campus takeover by protesters — some of them students, many not — has had the unintended effect of discrediting the premise underlying the protest. That premi...
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It's Time To Make the U.S. House of Representatives More RepresentativeMay 13, 2024 6:26 pm - Way back in 1929, the number of House members was set at 435 by the Permanent Apportionment Act. Little did those voting to pass the law realize how permanent it was to b...
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The movie of the month: 'Civil War'May 12, 2024 5:49 pm - A lot of viewers go into the theater thinking British screenwriter/director Alex Garland's latest movie is a foreboding glimpse into the inevitable result of our current ...
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Serious numbersMay 11, 2024 2:13 pm - I hope someday to be 100 and writing myself a birthday column, but I'm a ways from that event. What I am is 67 and writing myself a birthday column, which is serious enou...
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What happened to D.C.'s fiscal watchdogs?May 11, 2024 2:00 pm - The April jobs report found the U.S. economy added 175,000 new positions, but it fell below expectations. Unemployment nudged up to 3.9% last month, which at least keeps ...