Syndicated Columnists
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Populist politicians aren't so divided on economic issues, and that's bad newsJan 11, 2024 12:10 pm - The political landscape is often portrayed as deeply polarized. The two sides, it is said, can't agree on anything. Even worse, if one side supports a position, that's re...
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Dead center: On America's right and on its left, a certain madnessJan 10, 2024 5:55 pm - "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold," wrote Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 as he contemplated the post-war world with dread. For anyone on the lookout for...
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Big Media's Partisan Rush to Defend Ex-Harvard PresidentJan 09, 2024 2:39 pm - If The Washington Post treated itself the way it treats conservatives, it would call itself the "liberal Washington Post." The newspaper's Thursday story on the resignati...
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Our inevitably negative politicsJan 09, 2024 9:31 am - To explain the latest young generation's pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February to lament "the fact th...
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The Al Shifa Hospital and HamasJan 08, 2024 11:46 am - Israel was roundly attacked around the world for targeting the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza last November. In the United Nations, and in the international media, Israel was ...
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Helping Young Men Reach Their AmbitionsJan 08, 2024 11:40 am - Colleges and universities are preparing for the spring 2024 semester, and one current trend will be obvious at many campuses throughout the nation: there are fewer young ...
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Trump is innocentJan 06, 2024 6:23 pm - Trump Is Innocent Former President Donald Trump is innocent of directing, fomenting, encouraging or concocting an insurrection. He is innocent of these things until he is...
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The folly of following polls so far from Election DayJan 06, 2024 6:18 pm - A couple of months ago, the New York Times’ David Brooks wrote a column telling Democrats to chill out about the latest polls that showed President Biden trailing. Brooks...
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Time to extend 20th century ban on foreign-controlled broadcasters to 21st century TikTokJan 05, 2024 2:45 am - U.S. laws prohibiting foreign control of radio and TV stations are outmoded. It's easy to see why those laws were passed in the last century. Our government didn't want t...
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Backlash, anyone? The partisan efforts to keep Trump off ballotsJan 05, 2024 2:00 am - Former President Donald Trump's legal battle with Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows fits a pattern that played through 2023. It's complicated -- and so in the weeds...