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Beth Kowitt: Get ready bosses -- today's protesters are tomorrow's workers
Corporate America would very much like its employees to be quiet now.
Executives have had enough of the bring-your-whole-self-to-work and speak-up-at-the-office grand experiment of the pandemic era. Across the U.S., C-...Read more
Editorial: The rematch is set: Biden vs. Trump debates have the right balance
The last time the Democrats and the Republicans held a White House rematch with the same two contenders was 1956, when Ike beat Adlai Stevenson for the second straight time. Earlier, there were redos with William McKinley ...Read more
Commentary: When it comes to Russia, containment still isn't enough
The document that largely defined American foreign policy through the Cold War years was written anonymously by a prickly and melancholic Midwesterner who spent much of the rest of his life disavowing the repercussions of ...Read more
Commentary: Here's the buzz on why you shouldn't eat cicadas
“Just … why?” That’s the question that is baffling friends I’ve talked to about the flurry of strange online articles offering instructions on how to catch, kill and cook cicadas. As scientists make a mad dash to...Read more
Will Biden's Morehouse speech address campus protests? History suggests so
ATLANTA — On Sunday, President Joe Biden will step foot on a college campus for the first time since student protests over the war in Gaza at dozens of American universities, including some in Georgia, escalated to ...Read more
Commentary: When Biden and Trump agree, consumers should worry
Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on at least one thing. I know what you’re probably thinking: a little more consensus might be good for the country. But when we’re talking about both major presidential candidates ...Read more
Editorial: Germany turns to coal power to keep the lights on
Even green Europeans would rather tap coal than face the reality of overdependence on unreliable renewable energy.
Late last month, Germany’s energy regulator said the country needs more coal power. That’s surprising ...Read more
Commentary: We need to invest in a high-speed rail future
Two and a half hours. That is how quickly one could travel from Chicago to St. Louis with new high-speed rail infrastructure.
That could cut travel time nearly in half from current levels, saving millions of riders ...Read more
Martin Schram: A new world order for Gaza
If Bibi Netanyahu and his right-fringe Israel regime didn’t exist, Yahya Sinwar and his sinful warmongers of Gaza’s Hamas probably would have had to invent them.
But as things have turned out, Netanyahu and his gang ...Read more
Editorial: You won't like Trumponomics 2.0
Whoever wins November’s election, inflation will present them with an immediate challenge. More than two years after the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates to alleviate a pandemic-era price spike, the so-...Read more
Editorial: House antisemitism bill would stymie free speech and wouldn't make students safer
With campus protests against the war in Gaza as a backdrop, President Joe Biden last week rightly denounced incidents in which “Jewish students [were] blocked, harassed, attacked while walking to class.” Such actions ...Read more
Will Bunch: Trump would sell your grandkid's future for $1 billion
Sometimes the movies that stay with you for decades aren’t the good ones, but the ones with an unforgettable ad or an utterly inane premise. That last category includes maybe the worst movie of Robert Redford’s long ...Read more
Editorial: 'Grading for equity' leads to less learning
Liberals and conservatives hope to shrink the racial achievement gap. But they have very different approaches to doing so.
Real Clear Investigations recently looked into “grading for equity.” It’s a fad pushed by ...Read more
Jackie Calmes: The Supreme Court's conservatives onstage, unplugged and unrepentant
It’s that time of year when the life-tenured denizens of America’s imperial court, otherwise known as the Supreme Court, come down from their bench to mix with the masses.
Just kidding. The justices limit their ...Read more
Flirting With Disaster
In December 2022, Donald Trump said something that, in a healthy political culture, would have spelled his doom. He wrote, "A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, ...Read more
The World's -- and the Pacific Rim's -- Disastrous Population Implosion
Will the world be better off with fewer people? For years that has been a hypothetical question posed to suggest an affirmative answer. Fewer people, it was claimed, would mean less depredation of natural resources, less ...Read more
This Era’s Protesters Could Stand to Ask a Few More Questions
One of the roles we old folks fall into is to wish we could painlessly and conveniently give young people the useful wisdom life has taught us so they won’t have to learn it the hard way.
Such are the thoughts that come...Read more
Larry Hogan comes out in support of abortion access in latest appeal to Democratic voters
BALTIMORE — Former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that he supports codifying abortion access in federal law, amending a previous position that his Democratic U.S. Senate campaign opponent has sought to use ...Read more
Minnesota Legislature: GOP bonding threats won't stop abortion measure, DFL leaders say
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmakers say they won’t let speeches about fast food or Republican threats to kill a bonding deal derail their efforts to advance a bill that would plot a path for abortion ...Read more
Trump defense gets boost from tough Cohen cross-examination
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyer at his hush money trial grilled Michael Cohen for hours on the witness stand Thursday about possible inconsistencies in his testimony and his well-documented history of lying under oath...Read more
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