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Commentary: What do Americans think of the Israel-Hamas war now? The polling is surprising

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In the year since the attacks by Hamas against Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, much has changed.

Israel launched a large-scale military operation on Gaza, the geographic base of Hamas. The lives of millions of Palestinians have been thrown into destitution, in addition to the tens of thousands killed. Hamas, which governs Gaza, has been ...Read more

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Danny Westneat: A big Seattle name is in the election battlegrounds -- helping Trump

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Seattle's star socialist is at it again. This time, she's making news with some uncomfortable truth-telling about her own aims that's bound to make many Seattleites squirm.

Former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant was out in Michigan over the weekend, stumping for the Green Party presidential campaign of Jill Stein.

Democrats have long ...Read more

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Commentary: Political centrism has been getting a second look. Why?

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Political centrism has a bad name.

In fact, it has a lot of bad names. Centrists have been denigrated as squishy, weak in the knees, guilty of being sellouts — and worse, unpatriotic.

However, the idea of centrism has been getting a second look recently. Americans are feeling like they are imprisoned for life in the politics of extremism and...Read more

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Editorial: Longshoremen strike underscores AI challenges faced by workers

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“Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life.” — from the 2004 film I, Robot

More money is always good, but it’s clear now that wages were never the most critical issue leading to the now-suspended three-day strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association. The ILA�...Read more

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Commentary: Here's what Kamala Harris must do to appeal to a fractured voter base

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As the Nov. 5 election swiftly approaches, the nation’s razor-thin presidential race hangs on one truth. It’s all about the base.

That mantra applies to Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. There’s a wrinkle, however, for the Democrats.

Trump has locked up his GOP base. The challenge for Harris is that she must...Read more

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Editorial: Penny dreadful? America slowly makes its move to a cashless economy

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It used to be common to see Let’s Make a Deal contestants leave the TV game show smiling after winning $100 for every coin they could pull out of their purse or pocket. But as America moves ever closer to becoming a cashless society, it’s just as likely to see contestants who couldn’t scrape up a dime.

About 41% of Americans no longer use...Read more

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Jackie Calmes: When Trump talks 'bad genes' and 'racehorse theory,' he is telling us who he is

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Donald Trump's fascination with genetics, especially his own "good genes" of the white European sort, as well as the "bad genes" of the you-know-which types, has always been creepy. I won't compare him to Hitler; I leave that to historians and JD Vance.

Here's Vance in 2016, before Trump's election: Writing to a former Yale Law classmate, Vance...Read more

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Tyler Cowen: An economist's guide to helping victims of Helene and Milton

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With North Carolina still reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton landing in Florida, it is natural to ask: What is the best way to help the victims of these storms, and how can society best protect itself from such damage in the future? As an economist, I realize that I come at these questions with a bit of a ...Read more

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Noah Feldman: The Supreme Court ghost gun arguments were cringeworthy

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Should so-called ghost guns — assembled at home from kits in as little as 20 minutes — be counted as guns for purposes of federal law?

If you have an ounce of common sense, the answer is obviously yes. The relevant law defines a firearm as “any weapon … which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by ...Read more

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Commentary: Will voter turnout in November repeat the historic numbers of 2020?

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As we race to Election Day, one polling question will gain enormous importance in our understanding of the race — who are the actual voters? Using likely-voter screens, pollsters are now trying to figure out who will vote and who will sit this one out. In most polls, there is usually a small difference in the preference between the total ...Read more

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LZ Granderson: Mexico's gun crisis is our fault. Victims deserve their day in US court

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The Supreme Court is back at work this week, and among the more important arguments the justices are set to hear is a lawsuit filed by the government of Mexico against American gun manufacturers.

A data leak from the Mexican military indicated that more than 90% of the firearms found at crime scenes in Mexico between 2018 and 2022 originated ...Read more

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Francis Wilkinson: Only Thomas Jefferson can solve Oklahoma's bad Bible plan

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Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters desperately wants the Bible — well, a bible — in state classrooms.

As the Oklahoman newspaper reported last week, Walters’ play here is actually a good bit greasier than a straightforward Christian nationalist effort to impose his own religion in the state’s 43,000 classrooms. ...Read more

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Commentary: Climate change: The science doesn't support the heated rhetoric

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We are constantly reminded that we are experiencing a climate crisis, but as a climate scientist, I can tell you that’s not what the science has shown us so far. Other than modest warming, there has been little change in any kind of severe weather that can be attributed to global greenhouse gas emissions.

You don’t have to take my word for ...Read more

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Commentary: We live in our own version of Wonderland

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“Curiouser and curiouser,” Alice cried after falling down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

In nearly every arena of our lives we might observe the same, from our changing climate and increasingly high-stakes global conflicts, to space travel, energy conservation and the accelerating use of ...Read more

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Lisa Jarvis: The GOP's new anti-vaccine laws will hurt kids

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In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, U.S. politicians aren’t just bad-mouthing vaccines — they’re pushing through laws that undermine them. If the trend continues, we risk losing the layer of protection we enjoy from preventable diseases like the measles. And we risk losing more lives to seasonal illnesses like the flu and COVID.

A new...Read more

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Editorial: Price controls are a bipartisan delusion

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Now that inflation seems to be largely tamed, another threat has sprung up in its wake: the misguided notion that politicians can and should deal with high prices by capping or controlling them.

Both parties are guilty of this economic malpractice. President Joe Biden released a plan in July that would set a cap on certain rents. Vice President...Read more

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Nolan Finley: America needs better than 'just an average guy'

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"I grew up middle class" is not the answer to any question other than, perhaps, "How did you grow up?"

Yet that's the response incessantly offered by Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, when pressed on almost any issue.

This middle class virtue signaling is aimed at assuring voters the Democratic ticket ...Read more

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Commentary: America at 250, and the Fourth of July presidents

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An odd pattern has emerged in the history of presidential politics. Every time the United States celebrates a major birthday milestone, a Republican sits in the White House.

When America celebrated its golden jubilee in 1826, Democratic-Republican John Quincy Adams was enjoying his second year as the country’s chief executive. When the nation...Read more

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Leonard Greene: WNBA star Caitlin Clark has to deal with petty players and bigoted fans

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Caitlin Clark can’t win.

On one side of the court, she’s catching it from petty players who think the only reason she has achieved rock star status is because she is white.

On the other side of the court, she’s catching it from critics who think she’s not doing enough to denounce the racist backlash against the petty players.

...Read more

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POINT: 'Green energy transition' is a myth

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Despite huge enthusiasm for shifting from fossil fuels to green energy, this transition just isn’t happening. Implementing a significant change in our current trajectory would be prohibitively expensive. A major policy overhaul is needed.

On a global scale, we are investing nearly $2 trillion annually to create an energy transition. In the ...Read more

 

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