Nation World

The Washington fantasy world
Nation World, New York, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Aug 03, 2022
An odd atmosphere has descended on Washington, D.C. At the precise moment the government announced that the economy shrank for the second consecutive ...
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Single-issue advocacy is a threat to our democracy
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MARTHA E. CONTE Tribune News Service 
Aug 02, 2022
My friends have it wrong. I recently reached out to many of them about an effort to combat the intentional efforts by “big lie” candidates to take ove...
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Elon Musk is not your savior
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Aug 01, 2022
Conservatives may have noticed the recent spat between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Trump called Musk a “bull-- — artist”, and Musk replied that it was...
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Veterans become political pawns
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Jul 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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2024: A search for America’s future
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
Jul 29, 2022
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Is this the time to look to the past for a reason not to be stuck in the past? Is this the time to look to 1940, and then to 1945...
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Reality’s revenge: The return of stagflation
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
E.J. ANTONI - Tribune News Service 
Jul 29, 2022
The clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has said that you can bend reality only so far before it snaps back at you. In short, bad actions always ult...
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Webb telescope is a bargain
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CRAIG HOLMAN Tribune News Service 
Jul 28, 2022
Those spectacular pictures of galaxies forming at a time very near the origin of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope came at a pretty pri...
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Bring back the mask mandates?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jul 27, 2022
New COVID-19 surges have put many communities across the nation in a precarious position. The highly transmissible and evasive BA.5 subvariant is gett...
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Baseball and the joy of 61
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jul 26, 2022
Baseball is a game of numbers, and one of the most iconic of them, 61, is now in play. New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge remains on pace to matc...
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Pass Schumer’s marijuana legalization bill
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jul 25, 2022
Never mind that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is the lead sponsor. Never mind that 68% of Americans support legalizing marijuana , a figure tha...
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Congress moves to fix way it counts votes for president
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jul 25, 2022
WASHINGTON — Last week, a bipartisan group of 16 U.S. senators agreed on a long-awaited proposal to fix the Electoral Count Act, the ramshackle 1887 l...
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Biden should admit Iran nuclear deal is dead
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN GHAZVINIAN Tribune News Service 
Jul 24, 2022
It is now clear that the talks aimed at reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal — are going now...
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Reich says left needs another great purge
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Jul 24, 2022
I read the columns of Robert Reich, the former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton, with considerable interest, even though Reich is a malevo...
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Joe Biden’s bogus climate emergency
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jul 22, 2022
Word has come down from on high that it is now mandatory to refer to climate change as an "emergency." Democrats and climate activists are urging Pres...
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Congress should reinstate net neutrality
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jul 21, 2022
One of the COVID-19 pandemic’s ancillary effects was the proof it provided that broadband internet service is an essential public utility rather than ...
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