Opinion Columns
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Reform Medicare Advantage practicesJan 19, 2024 4:50 pm - Despite its name, “Medicare Advantage” (MA) is not an advantage for seniors and people with disabilities. It’s not even the same Medicare program that Americans have come...
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Encouraging distinctions and the misnamed ‘good ole days’Jan 18, 2024 6:48 pm - Among other topics, I like to read history, especially American history, and one of the dominant lessons this has taught me is how misguided we often are in our remembran...
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Explaining Trump’s big winJan 18, 2024 1:38 pm - Even though it was the first time Republicans had voted in this presidential contest, there was a last-stand mentality in Iowa among those who hoped to stop former Presid...
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‘Free media' for Trump feels like 2016 againJan 18, 2024 1:29 pm - When The Associated Press called Monday's Iowa caucus for Donald Trump around 5:30 p.m. Pacific -- a half-hour into the voting and before many Iowa Republicans had cast t...
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Who I am determines what I writeJan 17, 2024 12:19 pm - What I've been thinking about this first month of 2024 is how much who I am determines what I write each week in this column. So, for better or worse, here are a dozen el...
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How to lose a lawsuitJan 17, 2024 12:08 pm - No lawyer would ever advise a client to do what Donald Trump has done. He has perfected the art, if you can call it that, of attacking and trying to intimidate the judges...
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Today’s editorial cartoonJan 16, 2024 11:20 am -
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Retail pirates don’t fear store workers or the law. EnoughJan 16, 2024 11:07 am - Rep. Dina Titus, a Nevada Democrat., was in the cosmetics corner at the Walgreens at Eastern and Tropicana avenues when she saw a man come into the store, walk up to wher...
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Stark choices face Congress on immigration, Social SecurityJan 16, 2024 10:57 am - Apparently, House Speaker Mike Johnson has told senators that their bipartisan border security bill is DOA when it reaches the House, though the Senate bill is not quite ...
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As hostages' lives count down, Hamas has reason to smileJan 16, 2024 3:00 am - While Israeli and American hostages sit, bloody and terrified, chained, bound and caged in underground dungeons in Gaza, their kidnappers were given yet more encouragemen...