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The presidential debate two-step
Commentary, Nation World
Aug 09, 2024
With President Joe Biden now truly locked in the basement, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are engaged in a two-step ov...
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Will Biden-Trump debate change the race?
Commentary, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Jun 24, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — This week’s debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump won’t produce much in the way of civil dialogue over the nation’s f...
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Zeldin, Hochul to take part in TV debate tonight
News, NY State News
BRENDAN J. LYONS Times Union 
Oct 25, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul and U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin are scheduled to face off tonight in what is expected to be their only debate and as some po...
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Biden can learn from another old president, Reagan
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 23, 2021
Joe Biden turned 79 last week. He’s beginning to look his age. The president walks a little more stiffly now. His diction, once clear, sometimes sound...
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Biden strikes a blow for open-mindedness
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jun 02, 2021
Last week, President Joe Biden set an example that all of us — Democrat and Republican alike — should embrace. It wasn’t so much what he did — orderin...
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Facebook’s speech policies are absurd
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
May 10, 2021
It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If so, they didn’t have anything on the amorp...
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COVID loss is more than a big number
Local Columnists, Nation World
Feb 25, 2021
There’s some debate over the ability of the human mind to really comprehend numbers, especially as they get bigger. Five is simple. One can easily pic...
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Trump bulldozes, but did he win?
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
JANET HOOK, Tribune News Service 
Oct 01, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has spent the last year trying to find a way to throw Joe Biden off his game and strip him of his status as front-...
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Classical music and cancel culture
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Sep 30, 2020
As if having his music reduced to ringtones wasn’t insult enough, the great Ludwig van Beethoven himself has now become a political football in the ca...
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Can college football settle risk debate?
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Aug 18, 2020
At this point in the pandemic, there seem to be two primary sensibilities about how to approach the virus. The first says the threat of COVID-19 is so...
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Trump’s fair housing rollback
Commentary, Nation World
Jul 25, 2020
It is reasonable for communities across this country to have principled policy debates over the utility of multifamily and single-family housing. But ...
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