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		<title><![CDATA[Gautam Mukunda: The American divide exposes the high GDP fallacy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American economy is a wonder. The Economist observed that average
wages in America’s poorest state, Mississippi, are higher than those
in Britain, Canada and Germany. American GDP per capita now runs roughly
40% above western Europe. Post-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207660</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jill Burcum: Minnesota to ICE: No one is above the law]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Washington won’t hold federal immigration agents accountable for
misconduct, Minnesota will.

Criminal charges filed
Monday here against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent
Christian Castro sent this powerful warning to agents across ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207581</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Trump is copying the worst of FDR's presidency with racial roundups]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1942, a pregnant Fumiko Hayashida boarded a ferry for Seattle
clutching her 13-month-old daughter and a stuffed animal. Her family,
owners of one of Bainbridge Island’s largest strawberry farms, was
among the first of the more than 120,000 ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207580</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jackie Calmes: Obama's strong terms curbed Iran. Trump struggles to secure even a weak deal]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump, it's well known, is into gold. Every day
brings new evidence that he's thoroughly enjoying the "golden
age" he pronounced in his inaugural address — as few other
Americans are — with stock
trades, crypto
profiteering ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207579</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Trump's new slush fund is rank corruption: Department of Justice money for lawbreakers and president's pals]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dollar amount in Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund
memorializes this nation’s revolutionary break from a king; if this
agreement fully goes through, we might as well be returning to an
unaccountable monarchy. The origin of this ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207578</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[David M. Drucker: America's 'everything is rigged' era is toxic]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything, it seems, is rigged these days.

Unhappy with the economy? That’s because it’s rigged. Fed up with
your healthcare? It’s rigged, too. Frustrated with elected leaders in
Washington, Sacramento, Austin or Albany? Rigged, rigged, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207576</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Roadside zoos: Keep on driving]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the days grow longer and the sun shines, many of us feel the call
of the open road. Whether it’s a weekend getaway or a simple drive
through the countryside, the freedom of the open highway is
irresistible. But between snack stops and stretch...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207574</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michael Hiltzik: Are dodos and mammoths coming back from extinction? Don't count on it]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[My inbox started filling up with the supposedly groundbreaking news
early Tuesday, breathless news articles about a biological breakthrough
that will allow a long-extinct giant bird to walk the Earth in modern
times.

My reaction was this: "Not ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207573</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Stomping on IRS audits is an egregious abuse of power by President Donald Trump]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since 2010, Donald Trump has fought with the Internal Revenue Service
over his company’s tax returns in which the tax enforcers were
reported to have asserted the Trump Organization improperly claimed
massive losses, including from Trump’s ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207572</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gustavo Arellano: Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt need Latinos, not Trump]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[With less than two weeks before the primary election, Steve
Hilton is leading in the polls for governor, and Los Angeles mayoral
hopeful Spencer Pratt is
making the city's progressive class sweat.

If the former Fox News commentator and the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207570</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: America must confront the growing crisis among young people]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday’s act
of terrorism against a San Diego mosque, in which two teenagers are
accused of killing three people, should deeply disturb every American.
Not only because of the hatred allegedly involved, but because of what
it reveals about the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207255</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: The Navy's inexcusable accommodation of Kash Patel]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The USS Arizona is a tomb. That should have been enough.

FBI Director Kash Patel took
part in what a Defense Department email obtained
by the Associated Press called a “V.I.P. Snorkel” near the sunken
battleship at Pearl Harbor last summer. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207240</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Trump has left himself only bad options on Iran]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly three months after the United States and Israel launched their
large-scale bombing campaign against Iran and about six weeks since the
April 8 ceasefire took effect, President Donald Trump faces an
inflection point. Does he return to war? ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4207238</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mark Z. Barabak: Three wrongs don't make a right in case of election denier and Colorado governor]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's entirely possible — as hard as it may be to conceive in these
deeply
tribal, us-vs.-them times — for two competing notions to be
true.

Tina Peters personally enriched
herself and betrayed the public trust by perpetrating a harebrained
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206442</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Tens of billions lost each year in US welfare programs -- and we're not even measuring it all]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year’s welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota made headlines for
its brazen nature and massive scale. But it’s only part of the story.
Far more money slips through the cracks in the welfare system each year.
No outrage ensues — but given ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206441</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[COUNTERPOINT: Our wars haven't been worth it, and not just in Iran]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Memorial Day approaches, polls show nearly
two-thirds of U.S. voters oppose the war against Iran. They’re
right. After decades of war since 9/11, Americans now largely agree: War
isn’t worth it.

The Iran war has killed thousands of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206440</link>
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    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michael Hiltzik: Justice Dept. attack on UCLA and other med schools shows it has no idea what makes a good doctor]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has stepped up its assault on U.S. medical
schools in recent days with stern letters to
the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on May 6 and a
similar missive to the Yale School of Medicine last Thursday.

Both letters...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206439</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Most college degrees still carry a financial benefit]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many high school students, a career in the trades has become more
attractive due to the soaring cost of a college education and the
looming disruption of artificial intelligence in the white-collar world.
This path is indeed a worthwhile ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206438</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[POINT: War can be justified, but only as a last resort]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the United States confronts the growing danger posed by Iran’s
terrorist regime, Americans are again faced with hard questions about
war and its costs. Iran’s leaders have funded terror, threatened
allies, murdered dissidents and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206437</link>
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    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Beth Kowitt: DEI isn't dead. But it's not really alive, either]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports of the death of DEI in corporate America have been greatly
exaggerated.

Or at least that’s what a new study from Catalyst and New York
University’s School of Law’s Meltzer Center for Diversity,
Inclusion, and Belonging suggests. In ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206431</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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