Opinion Columns
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: Join our discussion of election issues that need more attentionDec 22, 2022 12:00 am - Reliable, accessible, well-managed elections are the foundation of any well-functioning democracy. Even discounting the convulsive impact of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and i...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: Remembering a Christmas that settled the fate of the worldDec 21, 2022 12:00 am - Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. This was hell on earth. On December 16, 1944, Nazi Ge...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Most Americans don't know how bad the border crisis isDec 21, 2022 12:00 am - Soon we should see the most consequential development on the U.S.-Mexico border since January 2021, when President Joe Biden essentially opened the nation's doors to mil...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Big cannabis and the research agendaDec 20, 2022 12:00 am - "Find a new vice," my doctor told me. Smoking one joint a day, he said, increases your risk of lung cancer by 8% each year. He is the top lung surgeon in town. I quit sm...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: Still fighting Nazis, pink hair and allDec 20, 2022 12:00 am - Writing about Nazis, in fact any contact with Nazis, is like stepping in the leavings of a large dog who accidentally got into the Ex-Lax. It's gonna take longer to get ...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Don't be fooled: Workers still share in rising productivityDec 16, 2022 12:00 am - For some time now, legislators have been eager to jack up subsidies for workers, whether it's by raising the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), hiking the minimum wage or ...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Musk opens the bird cage doorDec 16, 2022 12:00 am - In 2008, then Sen. Barack Obama embraced social media as he ran for the White House. After he won, Silicon Valley took pride in its role in electing the first Black pres...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: The extreme court knows no boundsDec 15, 2022 12:00 am - The noise of democracy fills the Capitol, while across First Street, the sound of silence rules at the Supreme Court. "The Nine" members are cloistered from all that. Ex...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Joe Biden and the price of gasDec 14, 2022 12:00 am - It doesn't sound like much, but President Joe Biden is doing better on Main Street. His overall approval ratings have been slowly improving since August, when gas prices...
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Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Political grandstanding probably dooms sensible immigration dealDec 13, 2022 12:00 am - When Democrat-turned-Independent Sen. Krysten Sinema was not complicating Democratic Party plans for the 2024 Arizona Senate race, she was striking a deal with Republica...