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Opinion
Biden’s push to change federal courts
by Carl P. Leubsdorf If Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, as seems likely, the high court will come closer to reflecting the […]
Say ‘gay’ as loud as you want, Florida kids!
by Fabiola Santiago You don’t know, dastards who rule the diverse state of Florida from the hills of Tallahassee, the pain and suffering gay children endure staying […]
Can the U.S. be energy independent?
On a press call with reporters Monday, Sen. Joe Manchin emphasized America’s need to be energy independent in the face of rising fuel costs. Before we go […]
March 13 letters to the editor
Not enough proof harm reduction works This letter is in response to the editorial published March 5. The editor took great liberty in drawing conclusions about my […]
Diaspora will echo 1939’s, but in opposite direction
by Daniela Gerson My wife and I share a past that spans continents and tracks back to the Polish-Ukrainian border. Eighty-two years ago, during a frigid winter, […]
My Irish heritage made me proud. Then my sister got a DNA test
by David McGrath I have a confession to make. I have been living a lie. The fraud has persisted for over a half a century, although it […]
The way to get politics back on track is to get centrists to the primary polls
by Lynn Schmidt Horseshoes may be good for horses and fun to play with, but they are terrible for politics. In political science there is an assertion […]
What do you do when ‘normal’ seems surreal?
Pandemic. Global warming. Racial reckoning. Cold war. World war. Potential nuclear Armageddon. It’s as if the most harrowing and tumultuous events of the 20th century have been […]
The false promise of autocracy
by Lawrence Goldstone Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shocked the world. It should not have. Vladimir Putin has been threatening Ukraine for years. To support those threats, Russian […]