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A different kind of genre war
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Aug 14, 2022
Boston Children’s Hospital offers a “full suite of surgical options for transgender teens and young adults,” a video made by hospital explains. A chee...
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Watson case forced NFL to change its ways
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 12, 2022
The National Football League might actually be showing signs of positive change after years of shoulder-shrugging and looking the other way when playe...
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Public deserves some answers
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 10, 2022
“O, what portents are these?” demands a deceptively observant character in “Henry IV.” Former President Donald Trump must be wondering much the same, ...
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Neither Trump nor FBI deserve benefit of doubt
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RYAN J. RUSAK Tribune News Service 
Aug 10, 2022
FORT WORTH — Partisans quickly retreated to their corners late Monday when news broke that the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida home...
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86,852 new IRS employees
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Aug 10, 2022
You’ve probably heard Republicans say the Inflation Reduction Act — the massive spending bill just passed by Senate Democrats — includes provisions to...
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Pharma overpromised on antidepressants
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FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
Aug 09, 2022
The most popular depression drugs taken by millions don’t work by fixing an “imbalance of the brain’s neurotransmitters,” as many drug advertisements ...
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No, Joe Biden still isn’t a good president
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 09, 2022
Every dog has his day, and apparently so does every miserably inadequate president. Joe Biden, who has been out-of-touch, tone-deaf and disturbingly i...
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Have we reached end of doomscrolling?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 09, 2022
Digital platforms are having a bad year. That might be good news for America’s mental health. The negative headlines keep coming, mostly driven by dis...
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Want economic mobility? Make friends at church
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Aug 08, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — The never-ending quest to understand why some people are more easily able than others to achieve the American Dream has a new, int...
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Everyone wins in the new budget bill
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CHRIS STANLEY Special to the Times Herald 
Aug 08, 2022
If we had anything like a functional political culture in this country, the bill that Democrats are calling the “Inflation Reduction Act” would have s...
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Pelosi’s dangerous game in Taiwan
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Aug 08, 2022
BOSTON (TNS) — Narcissist Nancy Pelosi and her hot pink pantsuit played a dangerous and reckless game in Taiwan. Even if it’s part of a coordinated U....
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How Joe Manchin got his superpowers
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
Aug 07, 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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Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols, heroes
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 05, 2022
There’s a reason for the simultaneous mourning and celebration of the lives of a basketball player and an actress, both out of the public eye for year...
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The misinformation superhighway
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
GENE LYONS 
Aug 05, 2022
Notice how you never hear anybody talk about “the information superhighway” anymore? The creation of the internet marked a big advance in human ingenu...
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Trump is the establishment frontrunner in 2024
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 05, 2022
In 2015, Donald Trump burst on the scene with a megaphone, a populist message, an army of grass-roots supporters — and not much else. If he runs for t...
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The just killing of Ayman al-Zawahri
Nation World, New York, Opinion
Aug 03, 2022
We have waited 7,629 days since 9/11, almost 21 years, to announce the death of Ayman al-Zawahri, an eye surgeon who was the No. 2 man and power behin...
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Why political activists rarely make good politicians
Nation World, New York, Opinion
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Aug 03, 2022
There’s a reason people repeat the adage that “half a loaf is better than none,” coined in 1546 in John Heywood’s collection of English proverbs. It i...
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