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Is the USA in trouble?
Letters To Editor
Oct 09, 2021
If the quote from Alexis de Toqueville is correct, the United States is in trouble. He said, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress...
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The US-China face-off is looking like the Cold War
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 28, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden hosted a summit meeting Friday that could turn out to be a watershed — but if you weren’t watching, you might have mi...
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Liberty Medal shines a needed light on dissidents
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Sep 18, 2021
Many people ask me how the United States can claim to promote human rights after its abandonment of Afghan women — and its inability to move China on ...
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We are still at war, and the costs remain high for some
Local Columnists, Nation World
ELIZABETH SHACKELFORD, Tribune News Service 
Sep 13, 2021
When President Joe Biden announced the end of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, he also vowed that the fight against terrorism would continue, in ...
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Questions about Afghan refugees
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Sep 10, 2021
Biden administration officials are proud of their effort to airlift about 118,000 Afghans, plus somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 U.S. citizens, from ...
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The world needs more COVID vaccines
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 08, 2021
President Joe Biden has a huge opportunity in the next few months to regain his footing as a foreign policy president after the fall of Kabul — a chan...
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Are Americans safer today?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 03, 2021
Is America safer after its 20-year war on terrorism in Afghanistan has resulted in the Taliban’s victory? The answer, like the war itself, is muddled....
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Fall of Kabul not the end of US global power
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Aug 23, 2021
Amid the chaos in Kabul, politicians and pundits have declared the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan a defeat from which U.S. influence may never recov...
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Canada just surpassed the US on vaccinations
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Aug 04, 2021
Three months ago, Canada, which has no domestic manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccines, lagged far behind the United States in immunizations. Only 3% of it...
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Troops to Haiti is not the answer
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 14, 2021
Haiti needs many things at the moment. American soldiers are not among them. Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph asked for U.S. military help after t...
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The China threat is real
Local Columnists, Nation World
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Jul 07, 2021
For beginners, China is a thief, the equivalent of someone stealing something more than $4,000 from every four-person household in America every year,...
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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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White House in denial about border crisis
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Mar 04, 2021
During the 2020 campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Donald Trump’s border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations ...
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