Opinion Columns
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Pursue peace, not war, in MideastMar 29, 2024 4:00 am - The current conflict in the Middle East will go down in history as one of the cruelest man-made catastrophe of this century. As of the writing of this article, more than ...
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A stirring of discontent over resorting to a vague descriptionMar 29, 2024 4:00 am - Alexa, cycling through an unending stream of images from my kitchen counter, beckons me to connect with a variety of network television sports content. And I am troubled....
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Things are great, but they’re miserable, tooMar 29, 2024 4:00 am - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” In rereading the opening lines of Charles Dickens' “A Tale of Two Cities,” I had the sense they were written last w...
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Estonia’s 20 years in NATO shows value of allianceMar 28, 2024 7:30 am - Twenty years ago, on March 29, 2004, Estonia, along with Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO...
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US Steel-Nippon Steel: A global deal for American prosperityMar 28, 2024 3:15 am - The Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel company recently agreed to be purchased by the Tokyo-headquartered publicly traded company Nippon Steel. This deal makes sense to econom...
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Senate GOP sees antisemitism, Senate Dems see diversityMar 27, 2024 7:45 am - The nomination of Adeel Mangi to fill a vacancy in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hit the skids Tuesday when Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a Nevada Democrat, made i...
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All eyes are on female rising basketball superstarsMar 27, 2024 7:00 am - Like many sports fans this year, I have been in awe of the on-court accomplishments of Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark. Her highlight reels on YouTube show her...
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Chuck Schumer and the Democratic leftMar 26, 2024 3:30 am - Who was Sen. Chuck Schumer speaking to when he denounced Benjamin Netanyahu and urged Israel to hold new elections to replace him? And who was he speaking for? Don't get ...
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The electric car fiascoMar 26, 2024 3:30 am - Donald Trump's anodyne if overexcited comment that the U.S. auto industry would face a “bloodbath” if he's not elected and doesn't impose 50% or 100% tariffs on cars prod...
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Scene from a neighborhoodMar 23, 2024 2:41 pm - Movie scene: A car pulls to the curb on a downtown street. Four men wait inside the vehicle. They're white. All of them have slicked-back hair, pinkie rings, shiny suits ...