Syndicated Columnists
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The World's — and the Pacific Rim's — Disastrous Population ImplosionMay 20, 2024 12:11 pm - Will the world be better off with fewer people? For years that has been a hypothetical question posed to suggest an affirmative answer. Fewer people, it was claimed, woul...
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Why no politician can ‘fix’ prices (and why that’s OK)May 18, 2024 10:04 am - Prices are threads stitching together the fabric of our economy. They guide countless producers, here and abroad, to meet the most urgent demands of countless consumers. ...
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On Middle East, slogans mean nothing without understanding historyMay 18, 2024 10:02 am - After a year as a professor at Columbia University, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton probably knows what she's talking about when she says young people “don't kn...
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Trump faces troubles, but Biden campaign is dead in the waterMay 16, 2024 8:54 pm - On Nov. 5, 2023, the New York Times published a story headlined, "Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds." Focusing on the states ...
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What voters don’t know … yetMay 16, 2024 6:15 pm - The problem with early polls is just that. They are taken early, and they are a snapshot of what voters know and think at the time they are taken. Which may be wrong. Bec...
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American gold: At age 100, Lt. Benjamin inspires stillMay 15, 2024 7:47 pm - If 100 can be said to be the new 70, Lt. Alfred D. Benjamin of the Army Air Corps' 384th Bomb Group has to be the expression's poster boy. Ramrod-straight and sharp as th...
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Protest much? An academic reckoning is overdueMay 15, 2024 7:33 pm - WASHINGTON — The Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition issued five demands: that Columbia divest assets that benefit from “Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupa...
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No Good AnswersMay 14, 2024 3:54 pm - There are no good answers to the current situation in the Gaza War. President Joe Biden is trying to use a pause in weapons shipments to force Israel to do more to protec...
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Moving away from the template of ‘oppressor vs. oppressed’May 14, 2024 3:50 pm - The violent campus takeover by protesters — some of them students, many not — has had the unintended effect of discrediting the premise underlying the protest. That premi...
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It's Time To Make the U.S. House of Representatives More RepresentativeMay 13, 2024 6:26 pm - Way back in 1929, the number of House members was set at 435 by the Permanent Apportionment Act. Little did those voting to pass the law realize how permanent it was to b...