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Where have all the English majors gone?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
October 25, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — It’s not exactly news that the humanities are in decline and college students are turning toward skills-based and career-focused f...
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How Joe Manchin got his superpowers
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
August 7, 2022
By what possible definition of democracy is it OK for Joe Manchin, a single senator elected with a mere 290,000 votes from the tiny state of West Virg...
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House Speaker Donald Trump?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
December 21, 2021
When I first heard the rumblings that Donald Trump could become the next speaker of the House, I rolled my eyes. What fresh insanity, right? Like most...
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The future of labor in America
Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
April 12, 2021
And just like that, the effort to organize nearly 6,000 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., was defeated. The announcement Friday mornin...
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US democracy has flaws, but alternatives are worse
Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
December 1, 2020
Sometimes it feels like democracy is just too dysfunctional. Voters are disengaged and uninformed. Congress is hyperpartisan — and so self-serving it ...
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Trump can’t lead us out of dystopia
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
September 3, 2020
We live in an increasingly dystopian society. I hate to sound hyperbolic, but I see more and more similarities to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” to “Contagion...
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