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Putin, Russia and what might have been
Commentary, Nation World
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
April 1, 2024
The tip came from the enemy. So, of course, the president found it suspicious — and provocative. He was, after all, ex-KGB. But what came next would h...
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Another master plan run amok
Daily Headlines, Nation World, Opinion
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
May 19, 2023
As President Joe Biden’s Air Force One landed in Japan Wednesday for a carefully planned G7 summit, he had a world of problems on his mind: Tensions w...
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The Putinization of China’s Xi
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
August 21, 2022
In this broiling summer, when we are shaken by threats that could shatter our most globally revered national monument — America’s cherished democracy ...
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Defund the no-longer law-and-order party!
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
August 14, 2022
Suddenly, news screens throughout our land are flooding us with new fears. Once again, it feels like we may be trapped in a reoccurring national night...
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Veterans become political pawns
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
July 31, 2022
It was four in the afternoon on March 10, 1991, when the first planned explosion of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons went off at the U.S. weapons dep...
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Unpresidented — America in Trump’s final days
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
July 17, 2022
In the rush to gush their big reveals about Donald Trump’s tumultuous final days as president, the prize for Best Ballyhoo was won hands-down by the s...
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Cheney lifts the rug on the GOP
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
June 13, 2022
“We cannot just sweep this under the rug. We need to know why it happened, who did it and people need to be held accountable for it. And I'm committed...
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Quit winging it and fly home, Putin
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
April 1, 2022
In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see. Then h...
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