Opinion Columns
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Understanding the experience of RamadanMay 12, 2021 1:00 am - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Biden's environmentally friendly infrastructure plan won't help infrastructure or the environmentMay 11, 2021 1:00 am - The Biden administration has made the fight against climate change a central part of its $2 trillion infrastructure plan. This legislation, if it ever sees the light of ...
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Cracks in the foundationMay 11, 2021 1:00 am - COVID? COVID-19 has all but disappeared from California. At this writing, our positivity rate - the percentage of tests that are coming back positive - is 1.2%. Califor...
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Data is clear that it's correct to end the dangerous 'trickle-down' mythMay 07, 2021 1:00 am - President Biden recently addressed a joint session of Congress to advocate for his proposed "American Families Plan." During that speech, he made a case for America to m...
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How do we define 'the common good'?May 07, 2021 1:00 am - I've always been impressed that the preamble to the Constitution begins, "We the People of the United States." We've heard the phrase so often that we don't even stop to...
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NO, there's no mandate to remake AmericaMay 06, 2021 1:00 am - Does President Joe Biden have a mandate to rebuild the United States? To remake American capitalism? To reshape the role of government? The president's Democratic suppor...
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Gincoin: It can only go upMay 06, 2021 1:00 am - What with a plate of diner ham and eggs costing nearly $11, I either have to get rich or get a better job. Getting a better job sounds hard. OK, so now I got a business ...
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The GOP's 'woke capital' awakeningMay 05, 2021 1:00 am - One of the unfortunate vestiges of liberalism's lingering influence upon American conservatism, and by extension the Republican Party that is conservatism's default poli...
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Tragedy of India: Leaders focus on damage control, not helpMay 05, 2021 1:00 am - "We are praying that we do not catch the coronavirus in the next few weeks" she said. "If we do, we are dead." "There are no beds available in hospitals," she continued...
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The 2020 census: Small Republican gains in a nation hunkered downMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - The COVID-delayed results of the 2020 census are finally in, with totals for the 50 states and the District of Columbia at nearly one-third of a billion - 331,449,281 - ...