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Sun, October 1, 2023 | 22:20

Supreme Court can let West Point keep affirmative action

It’s rare for a lawsuit to be invited by the Supreme Court. But that’s the background to the case brought by Students for Fair Admissions against the U.S. Military Academy at West Point over the school’s pursuit of racial diversity.

2023-09-27 14:00

Democrats have to solve their Menendez problem

Al Franken was an above-average senator from Minnesota who was driven from office in 2018 by his Democratic colleagues after several women accused him of touching them inappropriately or making them feel physically uncomfortable. Democrats opposing Donald Trump - then a confessed groper, later found liable for rape - did not want to have to defend the unseemly behavior of one...

2023-09-26 16:00

Rupert Murdoch's arrogant farewell says it all

The retirement of Rupert Murdoch, the global media mogul perhaps most responsible for our contemporary media dysfunction, prompted renewed speculation about the future of his far-flung media holdings. In the US, questions swirled about what this change might mean for Fox News’ dominance, not to mention its penchant for disinformation.

2023-09-25 16:00

What first-generation college students actually need

First-generation college students are less alone than they were a decade ago.

2023-09-25 04:10

Some kinds of dogs shouldn't be allowed as pets

Over the last two years, at least five people in the U.K. have been killed by American XL bully dogs, prompting no less than the prime minister himself to come forward with a plan to control the dogs. The upshot of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s policy is that they will have to be registered, neutered, muzzled in public and insured, with an eventual ban to follow.

2023-09-24 16:00

Big agriculture doesn’t want a fair Farm Bill

The United States’ food system is facing a crisis eerily similar to what we experienced almost 100 years ago: A corporate-dominated marketplace, strangled by an elite few, that holds farmers and consumers hostage to greed.

2023-09-21 16:24

Where do you stand on possible ballot questions?

A spot on the November 2024 state ballot remains in play for the most closely-watched initiative petitions, including the removal of the MCAS test as a graduation requirement, allowing the auditor to scrutinize the workings of the state Legislature, and the decriminalization of psychedelic substances such as psilocybin mushrooms.

2023-09-21 15:55

Welker's 'Meet the Press' Trump interview was a gross dereliction of journalistic duty

When Chuck Todd announced in June that he would be retiring as host of "Meet the Press," not a few people who take politics seriously breathed a sigh of relief: No more of Todd's insight-free, planed-down, both-sides-do-it horse race approach to news.

2023-09-20 16:00

Zelenskyy is coming to Washington to ask for more Ukraine aid. Congress should say yes

After three months of grueling combat against Russian troops, Ukraine's summer offensive is finally showing results - but not the dramatic breakthrough Ukrainians and their supporters in the West hoped for.

2023-09-19 16:00

The US and Vietnam should boost their relationship. China looms large

If you were to tell an American in 1973 that there would come a time when a future U.S. president was warmly greeted in Hanoi, he or she might have called you crazy. And yet, that's precisely what happened last weekend, when President Joe Biden flew into the Vietnamese capital, met with the senior leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam and departed with a strategic part...

2023-09-18 16:00

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