Syndicated Columnists
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The Democrats: Leadership discredited, party off kilterMay 20, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just about everything across the board?
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On education, Mississippi shows the wayMay 20, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: Shocking new data shows Mississippi now leads the nation in key education metrics. Is the Deep South outperforming progressive states?
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Sleazin' on a jet planeMay 20, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: If you don't have much money, you gotta have pride, or you're a bum, and people know you're a bum, and they call you a bum. But if you're rich, no one will think you're a bum no matter what you take, including a $400 million jet.
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‘Infrastructure Week’ provides reminder of a non-partisan needMay 18, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Infrastructure week became a joke in Trump's first term as plans fell through. Now he has a second chance, but agencies aren't cooperating and management is chaotic.
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President Trump bonds with Saudi ArabiaMay 18, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: On his first international trip in new term, Trump bondeds with the Saudi Crown Prince, urging Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel. He put aside the Jamal Khashoggi murder to benefit US jobs.
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The political message from Omaha should be obviousMay 16, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Froma Harrop: As Omaha trends Democratic, rural Nebraska sticks with Trump despite his policies threatening farms. But there’s a wake-up call here for Republicans that heartland dissatisfaction with Trump is growing.
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The Donald Trump ‘Revenge Tour’ is underwayMay 16, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: Donald Trump's post-election revenge tour: starving enemies of security, ransacking the free press, and weaponizing lawsuits to "make their lives miserable.
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‘JD Vance will be the nominee in 2028. Mark my words'May 15, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: Indiana Republican Senator Jim Banks predicts Vice President JD Vance will be the 2028 GOP presidential nominee and win the general election by diminishing China's influence, becoming a pro-worker party and replacing wokeism with patriotism.
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Counterweight: A new pope heralds a blessed contrastMay 15, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins: New American Pope signals hope and change after era of presidential "depravity." Can humble faith defeat greed and lies?
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European elites destroy democracy in order to save itMay 14, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: It's a puzzle why so many highly educated Europeans — and highly educated Americans — feel that limiting the number of immigrants entering their countries is morally akin to mass murder.