Opinion Columns
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Young voters spring (contradictory) political surprisesNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - What's with young voters? It's a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory developments that are out of line with conventional wisdom and prevailing ...
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From the river to the sea ...Nov 15, 2023 12:00 am - It is part of the 2017 Charter of Hamas, which rejected "any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea." It is part of the ...
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Cease-fire, negotions required to return sanity, reach peace in MideastNov 15, 2023 12:00 am - It has been over a month since the horrible attack of Oct. 7 on Israel in which 1,200 lives were lost. Since that time, there has been unprecedented violence, the likes...
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Forgetting, and how we fight the war to end warNov 14, 2023 12:00 am - You went to work if you had to. You grocery shopped, maybe. You made love or ate soup or had a drink in the evening. It was Veterans Day, which was once Armistice Day, a...
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When a political cartoon, or any idea, strikes a nerveNov 14, 2023 12:00 am - For nearly the past week, a torrent of complaint messages have inundated my email along with that of other Daily Herald editors and executives and of our fencepost@daily...
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Congress can redeem itself by calling for helpNov 14, 2023 12:00 am - There's much talk today about the need for a fiscal commission. The House Budget Committee held a hearing about it a few weeks ago. Pundits are Substacking about whether...
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The power of the abortion issueNov 12, 2023 12:00 am - Syndicated columnist For Democrats who are worried about the 2024 election, and plenty of us are, the results on Tuesday had to be encouraging. For decades, Democrats h...
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Teachable moments and the role of blame in public discourseNov 12, 2023 12:00 am - For those of us who came of age on a university campus during the Vietnam War, the turmoil we see today on America's campuses is both familiar and nonetheless different ...
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Three reasons Trump is leading BidenNov 10, 2023 12:00 am - The entire Democratic political establishment freaked out recently when The New York Times published a story headlined, "Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast...
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Bit of blackmail: The Hamas lobby tells Biden to bend, or elseNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - In the stiff competition to produce the least credible members of Congress, the Republican Party's leading entrants are Reps. George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene, a...