Articles filed under Opinion
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Hunger hurts us allJan 09, 2014 4:00 am - Carly Poe is a 33-year-old single mother in Portland, Ore. Despite a college degree, she struggles to find work and raise a teenage son with serious medical problems. Fo...
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Weather creed: Good stories and plenty of themJan 09, 2014 4:00 am - To butcher the creed of another venerable American institution, the post office, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night — nor now, the bitterest of cold — can...
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Make a deal with SnowdenJan 08, 2014 4:00 am - Is Edward Snowden a traitor? The question has vexed me ever since he leaked some of America’s most valued secrets to various news organizations, including The Washington...
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A yellow light for governmentJan 08, 2014 4:00 am - One of the main problems with an unremittingly hostile view of government — held by many associated with the Tea Party, libertarianism and “constitutionalism” — is that ...
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Snowden demonstrates double-think on importance of leaksJan 07, 2014 4:00 am - Moscow has always been hard on idealists. So it’s no surprise to find the world-renowned civil libertarian Edward Snowden feeling shaky midway through his first Russian ...
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A political circus ready to launchJan 06, 2014 4:00 am - If you happen to be one of those who enjoy politics as a blood sport, 2014’s midterm election promises to be a carnival of gore. And that’s just in the Republican Party...
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The war on Mideast ChristiansJan 05, 2014 4:00 am - In some parts of the world, Herod’s massacre of the innocents is a living tradition. On Christmas Day in Iraq, 37 people were killed in bomb attacks in Christian distric...
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A changing perspective for Indian-AmericansJan 03, 2014 4:00 am - Home is where the heart lies, but in recent weeks, some Indian-Americans have begun questioning their hearts and loosening ties with their ancestral home. Like those in ...
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The tale of one cityJan 02, 2014 4:00 am - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” So goes the first sentence in “A Tale of Two Cities.” It applies to us now. Except, 2013 was the tale of two old d...
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Hillary Clinton’s unlucky yearDec 31, 2013 4:00 am - It is incumbent on me as a columnist to do one of those year-end things — the 10 best of this, the 10 worst of that or, as you will see, who had the worst year in politi...