Opinion Columns
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Biden's migrant blackoutMar 17, 2021 1:00 am - Is there something missing from press coverage of the thousands of unaccompanied children who have illegally crossed the U.S. border from Mexico and are now in the custo...
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Biden moves forward with open-doors immigration policy. Why?Mar 14, 2021 12:00 am - "BIDEN," say the young demonstrators' T-shirts, imitating his campaign logo, "PLEASE LET US IN!" The picture ran in The New York Times, but one wonders whether whoever p...
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Give your money to the undeserving poorMar 14, 2021 12:00 am - Back in the ancient times, when our ancestors smoked nonfilter cigarettes and were sometimes shot for trying to form a union, there was a group of people called "the des...
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The ones who have yet to dieMar 12, 2021 12:00 am - By Susan Estrich In driving down Main Street in Santa Monica on Saturday night, you might think the pandemic is over everywhere, with people drinking and laughing, line...
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On the pursuit of tyrannical policies and zero-risk societiesMar 12, 2021 12:00 am - A lot has been said about the harm to people resulting from government lockdowns imposed in the name of fighting COVID-19. However, lockdowns aren't the only misguided p...
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Why the Cuomo case drives Republicans crazyMar 11, 2021 12:00 am - Things are looking worse by the hour for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Recently, a fourth, and then a fifth, woman came forward to accuse him of inappropriate behavior. At...
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What foreign policy can look likeMar 11, 2021 12:00 am - We often think of foreign and domestic policy as two separate and distinct fields. But for an American president, they are inextricably tied together. And as the Biden a...
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How to truly honor Dr. SeussMar 10, 2021 12:00 am - It is hard to imagine anything more exhausting than the constant indignation of so-called conservatives, who somehow sustain a state of rigid, barking anger over the sta...
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Immigration reform changed my life. But there are still 11 million immigrants in the shadows.Mar 09, 2021 10:00 pm - Within hours of inauguration, President Biden proposed a sweeping set of reforms to U.S. immigration laws, including a plan to allow immigrants in the country unlawfully...
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Vaccines are the way forward out of the pandemicMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - Vaccines are the most effective public health intervention in human history. Our world is far better because of them. If we wish to resume the lives that we had before t...