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		<title><![CDATA[Counting Votes in California]]></title>
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There he goes again. As Democrats predicted before the first votes were
in, President Donald Trump is, as is his way, challenging the results of
the elections in California. With absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing,
he took to Truth Social ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4220540</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[America's Bleak 250th]]></title>
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Not least because I was 12 years old, the Bicentennial festivities felt
very different from this year's 250th birthday celebrations for the
United States. This being America, commercialization was inevitable --
everything was red, white and blue...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4220869</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[America's Story Is Resilience. Martina McBride Has Been Singing It for Years.]]></title>
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When artists canceled their performances for President Donald Trump's
June 25 Great American State Fair, one stood out for me: Martina
McBride. The first time I saw Martina live in concert was at the Taste
of Cincinnati festival in Cincinnati, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4220078</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Right Thing Costs You]]></title>
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"If you're trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices,
do the thing that's hardest," my pop used to tell me. "The right thing
is always the hardest thing."

Which is how Scott Pelley got canned off "60 Minutes," a television news...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4219687</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mary Sanchez: ‘No Kings’ is why Trump’s face should not be on a $250 bill]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump’s latest scheme is to print his mug on a proposed $250 bill. The idea is eye roll inducing, for sure. There are so many other pressing issues for the nation; it’s tempting to stay out of this dog fight. On the surface, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4219988</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Price Gouging Is Whose Problem?]]></title>
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Horrors. The profiteers running this year's World Cup are forcing fans
to shell out thousands for a single ticket.

But they're not. FIFA, which oversees the once-every-four-years soccer
tournament, is slapping astounding prices on the tickets. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4219234</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Man at the Corner with the Bucket]]></title>
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I was stopped at a red light when I noticed a man on the sidewalk
pouring water over his head. He had a big bucket and a cup that he
filled with water from the bucket to dump over his head. At first, I
thought he might be trying to cool off, but...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4218671</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Present Breaks the Past's Heart]]></title>
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Change is not my best friend. Not since the day my family moved from
Wisconsin to California when I was eight.

Leaving the land of my grandmother, the skating rink and snowballs in
winter, Lake Mendota and the tennis courts in summer, the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4218398</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shouldn't Public Protection Be for, You Know, the Public?]]></title>
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A core role of the U.S. Department of Justice is to protect people from
abuse by giant corporations.

But DOJ's present inhabitants have twisted that mission backwards --
using the agency to protect corporate abusers from people seeking
justice....<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4218397</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rocket Men: Hezbollah Demands Impunity and Democrats Say 'Sure!']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen recently claimed that the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee was "un-American," an announcement that
surely surprised the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American
citizens who have supported ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4217546</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Platners Are in Therapy. They Really Need It]]></title>
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The Democrats' apparent choice to replace Maine Republican Susan Collins
in the U.S. Senate has built a rap sheet of dazzling disqualifiers.

It wasn't enough that Graham Platner's impersonation of a blue-collar
oysterman has been exposed. Turns...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4217543</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bill Press Advisory]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Press is not filing a 6/4/26 column. We are subbing Mary Sanchez. The Press column returns next week. ©2026 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. KeyWords:: 780e2dda-de59-406b-8f22-56eb425d03bf 780e2dda de59 406b 8f22 56eb425d03bf bc-press-advisory ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4217424</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Truth About Trump’s Birthday Bash]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of my recent Substack post about Trump’s plans for a
Trump rally on the mall to celebrate the start of America’s 250th
birthday festivities — designed, in his words, for “patriots” and
promising to be “wild” — several of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4216870</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dems Ruminate Over an Autopsy When They Should Be Making Hay]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seemed to take forever, but on Thursday the Democratic National Committee finally released their autopsy of their ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign. It's bitter medicine, my Dem friends, but, as Momma used to say, take a spoonful, it’ll do...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4215311</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Investigation of E. Jean Carroll]]></title>
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President Donald Trump may be the smallest, meanest and most vengeful
man to serve in the Oval Office. Every time I think he and his minions
could stoop no lower, they surprise me. There is simply no limit to
Trump's hunger for vengeance, or the...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4214930</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More Good Advice Democrats Won't Take]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As with the weather, everyone complains about the Democrats, but no one
does anything about them. Well, we <i>do</i> point out what the
perennial hapless loyal opposition is doing wrong. But we rarely offer
useful suggestions for what they ought ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4215396</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Conservation and Public Safety Align When Dangerous Dams Are Removed]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the
Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of
the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness
Day, and I wanted to learn why...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4214753</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's That Peeking in My Window? It's My Job]]></title>
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I used to work with a guy, and every morning, I would greet him the same
way.

"Howyadoin'?" I'd say.

"I'm here," he'd answer.

And so, we were. We were there for eight hours, day or night shift, with
two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch....<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4214419</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Helps Turn Texas Blue]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a Texas-size blowout. In the Texas Republican runoff on May 26, scandal-plagued, Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton crushed longtime Republican incumbent John Cornyn, 63.8 to 36.2. Thank you, Donald Trump. For anybody who doesn’t worship Donald ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4214668</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sonny Rollins Knew Not to Die Young]]></title>
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How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95?
Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages?
Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed.

It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4213752</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/28/2026</pubDate>
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