Opinion Columns
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Can the U.S. sustain the international order?Jun 03, 2021 1:00 am - We don't often think that how the U.S. conducts itself at home has much impact on how we face the world, but it does. You'd be amazed at how closely people in countries ...
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The key lesson to take from Fauci's emailsJun 03, 2021 1:00 am - There is a valuable lesson in Dr. Anthony Fauci's just-released emails, and it has nothing to do with COVID-19. It involves two particular aspects of written communicati...
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After George Floyd, what one year has broughtJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - By Byron York President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met in the Oval Office last week with the family of George Floyd, the man who died a year ago in the ...
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Expanding the child tax credit ignores historical precedentJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - Marketing is everything in politics. It explains why a tax credit that benefits 90% of American families with kids - some of them with income higher than $400,000 - is m...
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Without dirty mining, you can't make clean carsJun 01, 2021 1:00 am - Before the November election, candidate Joe Biden's campaign let it be known that the Democratic nominee would part ways with environmental activists by supporting minin...
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Restoring the U.S. Postal Service should be a priority for CongressJun 01, 2021 1:00 am - When Americans were recently polled about various public institutions, the winner was rated favorably by 91 percent. Here's a hint: it wasn't the U.S. Congress. The top...
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A day to remember alliances and the sacrifices that secure our freedomMay 31, 2021 1:00 am - "Why all the fuss?" That is how retired United States Army Colonel Ralph Puckett reacted when he learned he was to receive the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary brave...
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Standing by Israel is more than just loyalty to a friendMay 30, 2021 1:00 am - When I used to do politics in Boston, there was a saying about loyalty. Loyalty isn't about sticking by your friends when they're right. That's easy; mostly, it involves...
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This should bug you more than cicadasMay 30, 2021 1:00 am - A reasonable person living in the United States over the past 17 years might have been occasionally tempted to emulate a type of cicada that lives in the regions around ...
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I'm wearing my mask for you, not meMay 28, 2021 1:00 am - I admire the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky from Harvard. She is following science, and science says there is no ...