Opinion

I hoped to write less about Trump in 2023…
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Jan 02, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — My New Year’s resolution 12 months ago was to write fewer columns about Donald Trump. That well-intended goal met the same end as m...
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Have scientific breakthroughs declined?
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
Jan 02, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — 2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientifi...
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GOP, be honest about elections
Commentary, Nation World, New York
Jan 01, 2024
In recent weeks, Congress has stripped a senator of his committee chairmanship pending a bribery investigation, expelled a House member for egregious ...
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Blue to red state migration continues
Commentary, Nation World, New York
Dec 29, 2023
The latest Census data finds that on present course six progressive states would lose 12 House seats in 2030 reapportionment. The migrant border mess ...
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Confession of a public-health expert
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 29, 2023
The public-health officials are getting around to admitting the fallibility of public-health officials. The former head of the National Institutes of ...
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Neither Trump nor Biden deserves America’s vote
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
NICOLE RUSSELL Fort Worth Star-Telegram 
Dec 29, 2023
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The year 2024 is almost upon us, which means another election year, another chance for American voters to participate in our...
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Incompetent U.N. dares to lecture Israel
Commentary, Nation World
Dec 28, 2023
Israel faces increasing pressure from the usual suspects to stand down in its war with Hamas. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently noted, ...
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Put teeth on this watchdog
Commentary, New York
Dec 28, 2023
All we want for Christmas is a functional state ethics enforcement body, instead of one trapped in legal limbo While editorial boards are definitely i...
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U.S. Steel was already gone
Commentary, Nation World
BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Dec 28, 2023
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Sawdust. Horseshoes. Eggs on spoons. Water balloons. This is not an attempt at free-verse poetry. These are the images that come to...
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Holding on to Christmas
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH 
Dec 28, 2023
There are basically two camps of holiday people — the early decorators and those who wait at least until after Thanksgiving. It’s just as true for pos...
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Could a third party be the answer we need in 2024?
Commentary, Nation World
Doug Gansler The Baltimore Sun (TNS) 
Dec 27, 2023
Four more years of a Trump presidency would take an enormous toll on America and its democracy. Polling continues to trend in Donald Trump’s direction...
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Banning Trump from ballot is one way to fix election
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TOM WROBLESKI Staten Island Advance 
Dec 25, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — What are Democrats so afraid of? The way they’re acting, you would think that Joe Biden hadn’t beaten Donald Trump for the presidency...
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Ways to help victims of war this holiday season
Commentary, Editorial Cartoons
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Dec 22, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — This holiday season is a bleak time for Ukrainian civilians facing another winter of brutal Russian bombing — especially when GOP...
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Celebrate the birth of Jesus
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
Dec 21, 2023
In her Dec. 8 commentary “Bringing Personal meaning to Christmas,” Marcie Schellhammer encourages readers to think about what Christmas means to them....
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