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Nationalism’s finest hour
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 02, 2022
If anyone had any doubt that Ukraine has its own national identity, the early days of the Russian invasion should have eliminated it. There's been the...
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NY’s absurdly complicated tax exemptions
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 02, 2022
March 1 was the deadline for low-income seniors to apply for a property tax break of up to 50% from their towns. The senior citizen exemption isn’t ne...
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Welcome to Cold War 2.0. It won’t be easy
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 01, 2022
No matter how Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ends, it already marks a turning point in history: the end of a 30-year period of relative peace in...
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Too late with free COVID tests
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 01, 2022
On Jan. 18, the day the federal government’s website allowing Americans to order free at-home COVID tests opened (one day before its official launch, ...
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A civilizational challenge
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RICH LOWRY 
Feb 26, 2022
A clash of civilizations is upon us. Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine doesn’t just herald a new era in European security, it underlines a growing ...
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Even Democrats can’t decide who they are
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GENE LYONS 
Feb 26, 2022
To hear some people tell it, the Democratic Party is overrun with far-left culture warriors preaching “identity politics” and what Kevin Drum calls “s...
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Trump’s new Truth Social joins the fray
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 26, 2022
President Donald Trump’s social media competitor to Twitter — called Truth Social — has gone public. The app proclaims itself to be “America’s ‘Big Te...
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How Reagan would have handled Putin
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TYLER COWEN / Tribune News Service 
Feb 25, 2022
The Ukraine crisis makes me miss Ronald Reagan. More to the point, it makes me better appreciate his combination of moral clarity and realism: He unde...
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‘Follow the science’ is a slogan, not a policy
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FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
Feb 25, 2022
Almost everybody wants to be seen as embracing science. That’s true whether they are arguing to take masks off or leave them on, or whether they’re pu...
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Biden must hit Putin harder with sanctions now
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TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2022
Any illusions about Vladimir Putin’s objectives should have vanished on Monday, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in a decade. The Russi...
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The (ongoing) border crisis
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BYRON YORK 
Feb 24, 2022
These days, the news is dominated by reporting on the Russian threat to Ukraine, by increasing fatigue with COVID restrictions across the United State...
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Wilson joins GOP race in NY
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 24, 2022
We thought business turnaround expert Harry Wilson was terrific when he ran for state comptroller a dozen years ago. So did the Times and the Post, th...
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BLM is a political and policy disaster
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 23, 2022
The Democratic party is finally realizing its vulnerability on culture issues, and perhaps no group better exemplifies the problem than Black Lives Ma...
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The latest conservative to join the resistance
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JACKIE CALMES Tribune News Service 
Feb 23, 2022
WASHINGTON — It’s been a measure of former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig’s stature in the conservative legal movement that Supreme Court justices hi...
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Even parents in lib SF have limits
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 23, 2022
San Francisco is arguably America’s most progressive city, so the lopsided recall of three school-board members on Feb. 15 stunned political observers...
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Crime increases after police cuts
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 22, 2022
Democrats elsewhere may be fleeing the defund the police movement, but it lives on in Seattle. Business owners told the City Council last week what th...
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Amend the Electoral Count Act
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 22, 2022
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) is 809 words in 10 long and confusing sentences describing how Congress is meant to certify the election of a U....
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