Opinion Columns
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The end of the world's most successful political partySep 08, 2019 1:00 am - Britain's Tories are arguably the most successful political party of the modern age. The Conservatives have ruled Britain for nearly 60 of the 90 years since 1929 (the c...
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Downward spirals of depression can be deadlySep 06, 2019 1:00 am - There are alarming consequences for the survival of human beings and the success of the society they inhabit when the brain suffers without treatment. And it has become ...
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It's not the Nazis that loom over U.S. but 'The Troubles'Sep 06, 2019 1:00 am - Many on the political left in this country have indicated parallels between the rise of the National Socialist Party in Germany in the first half of the 20th century and...
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An inconvenient loss, and something else to learn from Jesse WhiteSep 05, 2019 1:00 am - This is a story about expectations. Also about customer service. Also stereotypes. Also government. Also Jesse White. Stay tuned. We start in New York City last July. Wh...
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Waiting for DorianSep 04, 2019 1:00 am - CAMDEN, S.C. - For the Eastern Seaboard, Dorian has become the Godot of hurricanes. Barely moving after hovering over the Bahamas for what seemed an eternity, the forme...
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House GOP leader should call for probe of possible misconductSep 04, 2019 1:00 am - House Minority Leader Jim Durkin has had an opportunity to be a statesman and take the bold step of rooting out corruption and wrongdoing in his own caucus. It is easy t...
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The Old South gets a new college presidentSep 03, 2019 1:00 am - CHARLESTON, S.C. - From a childhood laboring in China's cotton and wheat fields to the presidency of the College of Charleston, Andrew Hsu's story is anything but ordina...
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The last defenders of free trade are in AfricaSep 01, 2019 1:00 am - The best word to describe the mood of the global economy these days is gloomy. The pessimism is closely tied to the loss of faith in free markets and free trade, the two...
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The Arctic, melting ice and international challengesSep 01, 2019 1:00 am - "What about the rest of the North?" asked McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation, back in the 1970s while considering yet one more grant to help the troubled N...
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Evangelical leaders are tidying up the kitchen while the house burns downAug 30, 2019 1:00 am - Much white evangelical support for Donald Trump is based on a bargain or transaction: political loyalty (and political cover for the president's moral flaws) in return f...