Opinion Columns
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Let’s show compassionJan 19, 2024 5:51 pm - Imagine being on a long and perilous journey to the promised land of America. When arriving, you are tired, thirsty, cold and scared. Due to circumstances beyond your con...
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Who's drowning out your voice?Jan 19, 2024 5:49 pm - Jan. 21 is the 14th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision to allow unlimited spending by corporations on electioneering communications. We all ...
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The circus of congressional hearingsJan 19, 2024 4:51 pm - Hunter Biden leaves a House Oversight Committee markup on Wednesday, Jan. 10, as they consider a resolution to hold him in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena las...
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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 -