Opinion Columns
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Slusher: Eclipse, Hurricane Harvey show our better natureAug 31, 2017 1:00 am - Last week started with the a solar eclipse. It ended with a devastating hurricane that was historic even by hurricane standards. It's easy to see why primitive societies...
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To brother Cromartie, with loveAug 30, 2017 1:00 am - There is something eternally bonding about a shared near-death experience, which is how I first met Michael Cromartie. This was 15 or so years ago, before I had moved to...
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With the Arpaio pardon, Trump deepened the moral damage to the GOPAug 29, 2017 1:00 am - Repetition is the enemy of maintaining proper distinctions. It is a short road from being serially outraged to being slightly bored to being completely inured. Thus man...
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Trump risks military lives, political future in AfghanistanAug 29, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan means that our 16-year-old war against the Taliban terrorists will continue for years to come. And many ...
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Keep Air Force One on the groundAug 29, 2017 1:00 am - One of the most misguided, useless - and possibly disruptive - but common and typical events in American politics - appears set to take place today. While rain is likely...
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Results of early-childhood programs last into adulthoodAug 28, 2017 1:00 am - I vividly remember the day I received my application to my college's education program. I was so excited to begin my career. I was going to change the world by breaking...
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Robert Lee, no E.Aug 27, 2017 1:00 am - You know we've reached a point of - something - when a sports announcer named Robert Lee is reassigned from calling a University of Virginia college football game becaus...
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Two decidely different ways of fighting body shamingAug 26, 2017 2:00 pm - Who would have guessed that news of celestial bodies, which eclipsed all other coverage, was dimmed a few days later with the topic of body shaming? Stories about Monday...
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Let's erect monuments to the best among usAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - In the mid-'90s, after the Soviet Union collapsed, I went to an old park in Moscow where the Russians had deposited pieces of the monuments of the "great" communist lead...
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Trump signs on to the forever war in AfghanistanAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - There is surely no greater sign of the bankruptcy of American foreign policy than its Afghanistan policy. After 15 years of war and the deployment of hundreds of thousan...