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Editorial: Hamas wins the PR war thanks to US left
It’s been three years since Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border and launched a savage assault, killing, burning, kidnapping and raping innocent men, women and children.
The massacre on Oct. 7, 2023 and ensuing war can be chalked up by Hamas as a PR win, thanks to their allies on the American left.
The terrorist group was nothing if ...Read more
Editorial: What would socialist policies mean for the middle class?
With Election Day less than a month away, voters should look beyond campaign slogans and ask what the policies on the ballot would mean for families who built their lives around work, homeownership, savings and the hope that their children can do better.
A growing socialist movement promises to make life fairer by putting more of the economy ...Read more
Editorial: The brutal terror of Oct. 7 inflicted on Israel must not be forgotten amid the debate over Gaza
Oct. 7 was a brutal, savage sneak terror attack by Hamas in which they raped, kidnapped and murdered Israeli civilians in their homes, in their beds, at a music festival, wherever they could be found, in the worst day of slaughter of Jews since Hitler’s Holocaust. That’s what Oct. 7 is and that always must be remembered as the world marks ...Read more
Gustavo Arellano: What Steve Hilton doesn't get about Xavier Becerra's parents
My maternal grandmother, Marcela Miranda, was born in Arizona's copper country in 1914 and lived in the United States until she was about 7.
She was part of a generation whose parents were from the rancho of El Cargadero, Zacatecas, and started families in el Norte while waiting out the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s and the Cristero Revolt in...Read more
Mark Z. Barabak: Hilton makes history in California governor's race. But not the kind he had in mind
Let’s pretend for a moment you’re a Republican running for governor in the blue, blue state of California.
Your prospect of winning is small. So small, you could peer through a microscope, blink and miss it. How, then do you draw voters to your candidacy and boost your chances?
Actually, let’s not pretend. A very real flesh-and-blood ...Read more
Commentary: A Columbus Day question -- Have we finally stopped distorting our past?
Dilapidated artwork says a lot about a society. Restoring it can breathe fresh life into a culture. A timely case in point: the Christopher Columbus fountain in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C.
It’s a reminder of our history and of our connection to the old world. Yet it was left to ruin for nearly 20 years. The water didn’t flow,...Read more
Commentary: The most important assignment of the semester -- Make a plan to vote
For many students, the start of the fall semester means a new address. Whether it's a freshman-year dorm room or a sick (you decide the connotation here) off-campus apartment, your address can impact how and where you vote.
With midterms quickly approaching—no, we’re not just talking about your exams—checking your voter registration now ...Read more
Aisha Sultan: The robots tell me which jobs they're taking
A mother of a graduating high school senior recently confided that her son wanted to study actuarial science in college, and she was worried about whether AI would end up replacing those jobs.
It may seem like an insignificant concern when the big debate recently has been whether AI will wipe out all of humanity in the near future. Why worry ...Read more
POINT: Trump's name should never go on the Kennedy Center
President Donald Trump famously likes to put his name on things he builds as monuments to himself. It might be conceited, vain and unseemly, but that is his right.
What he doesn’t have the right to do is permanently plaster his name on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. To do so would not just be unlawful. It would...Read more
Commentary: What makes a college civics requirement work
Students entering Ohio’s public universities this fall are the first four-year cohort expected to graduate under the state’s new American civic literacy requirement. Beginning with the spring 2030 graduating class, students must complete an approved three-credit course built around the Constitution and other foundational texts, with limited ...Read more
COUNTERPOINT: Trump's name belongs on the building he is saving
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in trouble because years of neglect have left the national landmark unsafe, underfunded and waiting for someone else to pay the bills.
President Donald Trump became chairman of the board after returning to office and made its renovation and financial condition a personal priority, while also...Read more
Commentary: Cornell case shows #MeToo is still changing the world
Not long before the #MeToo hashtag erupted in 2017, two young women, who said they’d been raped while studying at the University of North Carolina, organized a national movement to stop campus rape and confront the colleges that did little to punish it. Ten years later, here we are, consumed with national outrage over yet another alleged ...Read more
Mark Gongloff: Florida's dengue fever outbreak is a national warning
For a state whose government officially doesn’t believe climate change is real, Florida remains our nation’s busiest climate-change laboratory.
The latest test for the Sunshine State is an outbreak of dengue fever, the largest in the U.S. since the 1940s. The numbers are relatively small: 485 cases as of the latest count from the Centers ...Read more
Mary Ellen Klas: Latino voters are the new swing voters
Almost as soon as next month’s elections are over, arguments will begin about the lessons and implications for 2028. But one conclusion is already undeniable: Latinos are America’s new swing voters.
If Democrats win control of Congress in November, it will be in large part because the Latino voters President Donald Trump captured in ...Read more
Steve Lopez: 'Take out' L.A. or San Diego? This buffoon thinks Trump was way out of line
I went to bed at a decent hour Monday night and got a pretty good sleep.
I woke up refreshed Tuesday morning, only to see the news that President Donald Trump seemed to have told a crowd in Nebraska that it wouldn't be such a bad thing if Iran attacked Southern California.
"Let 'em take out Los Angeles. Let 'em take out San Diego," he said in ...Read more
Editorial: Supreme Court must support the Constitution, not Trump
Having undermined the law and the Constitution with some terrible opinions in deference to President Donald Trump, this week brings the new U.S. Supreme Court term, and with it the risk that our nation’s highest judicial body will continue to make us a less fair, less moral and less safe society.
As with other recent terms, the weightiness of...Read more
Editorial: Dave McCormick dreams of strengthening science, but Trump is researchers' worst nightmare
In a recently published op-ed extolling the lifesaving virtues of federally funded research at institutions such as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Sen. Dave McCormick called for doubling funding for the National Institutes of Health.
Good luck with that.
The Pennsylvania Republican is certainly right about the human and material value ...Read more
Rochelle Olson: What if we reversed the genders at St. Paul City Hall?
Since the St. Paul police chief’s sexual harassment claims against Mayor Kaohly Her surfaced last summer, I’ve had private and public discussions about the role of gender.
Initially, I warned against a rush to judgment. I wanted to see the findings from a St. Cloud law firm’s independent investigation into the claims by Chief Axel Henry. ...Read more
Commentary: What America's naval power bought the world
Commercial shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed. Before the war with Iran, approximately 125 commercial vessels passed through each day. In late September, the 10-day average was down to about 18.
Americans who will never see the Strait of Hormuz are paying for this disruption every day. For decades, American naval power,...Read more
Michael Hiltzik: Trump's deal for Venezuela's oil is secretive, exaggerated and suspicious
Here's what President Donald Trump has said about his deal for Venezuelan oil: that it's a deal with the current Venezuelan government, that it will more than double U.S. oil reserves and that it will "substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans, long into the future."
Here's a simple rule of thumb for assessing all these claims: None of ...Read more

















































