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Military service is greater than protecting borders

As a high school teacher and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and Operation Iraqi Freedom, I often spoke with my students when...

This Veterans Day should catalyze major systemic reforms

Year after year, presidential administration after administration, people across the political spectrum agree that U.S. military veterans deserve better treatment. Alas, despite genuinely good...

Read more books

The debates over e-readers and physical books, or whether audiobooks count as reading, pale in comparison to the real problem at hand: where have...

James Carville should listen to James Carville

Democratic strategist James Carville is a modern-day Cassandra, an all-seeing prophet doomed to be ignored by everyone, including sometimes even himself. Vice President Kamala Harris...

Trump vs. California values is the fight voters deserve

Donald Trump is still months away from being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, but already his enemies are amassing...

Alabama has a veterans controversy with national implications

MOBILE, Alabama — On this Veterans Day, Alabama is roiled by a doozy of a veterans-related controversy. Republican Gov. Kay Ivey last month invoked “supreme executive power,”...

After a decisive loss, Harris can spare us her ‘peaceful transfer of power’ malarkey

During her quasi-concession speech Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris told supporters she had called President-elect Donald Trump earlier in the day to congratulate him...

Berlin Wall anniversary offers lessons for today

The Berlin Wall toppled 35 years ago. First, the world looked on with awe, and then the disbelief gave way to jubilation. From Aug....

Why the internet’s deranged reaction to Trump’s victory matters

If you doubt the widespread mental health crisis among Generation Z, just check out postelection TikTok. “I might wake up a slave.” “Why didn’t the Germans...

This week’s elections, upon further review

Some further random observations on the election: Campaigns attract good folks. Let’s start with something positive. After 60 years of observing and interacting with people...
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