Opinion Columns
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Alarm goes out: Trump could winAug 06, 2023 1:00 am - In the past few days, we've seen a number of political analysts come to a momentous conclusion. Actually, two momentous conclusions. The first is that it is unlikely any...
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'Oppenheimer' stirs fears on elusive nuclear 'grand bargain'Aug 04, 2023 1:00 am - I am a child of the Cold War. I remember vividly the duck-and-cover drills and the radiation symbol marking the entrance to the basement shelter at my school. Today's st...
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Trump did not win the judicial lottery this timeAug 04, 2023 1:00 am - By Keith Raffel Syndicated columnist By the luck of the draw, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan was assigned to preside over former President Donald Trump's trial...
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Understanding the separation of artistic criticism and politicsAug 03, 2023 1:00 am - In more than 45 years of working in journalism, I have never seen someone ask that a movie be reviewed. I have been told many times that a particular review stinks and t...
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Why we're asking the wrong question about the industrial policy pushAug 03, 2023 1:00 am - Proponents of the ongoing push for national industrial policy, whether they come from the left or the right, frequently argue that we need to promote certain sectors or ...
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Asylum-seekers have a right to humanity at leastAug 02, 2023 1:00 am - Twenty-three adults and 13 children. That's how many people were along for the 25-hour bus ride from Brownsville, Texas, to Los Angeles last week. The bus trip followed ...
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The proximal origin of a scientific fraudAug 02, 2023 1:00 am - "We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible." That's the key sentence in an article published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, titled...
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The small town we made upAug 01, 2023 1:00 am - I did part of my growing up in a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. The parents of most of my high school friends were immigrants who had come to Kansas City from Bluejack...
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When tragedy darkens the bright future of a young athleteAug 01, 2023 1:00 am - During the middle of July, a tragic homicide story rocked the Ohio State University football team as the mother of freshman wide receiver Carnell Tate was killed in a dr...
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It's time to stop referring to campaign funds as "war chests"Jul 30, 2023 11:00 pm - The term "war chest" originally referred to a literal chest, in which people in medieval times kept weapons, gear, and money in case they were attacked. The term later e...