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Durham’s righteous probe
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 16, 2022
From the perspective of several years ago, it’s the stuff of an implausible political thriller or a conspiratorial YouTube account. One presidential c...
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Will expected Red Wave flatten?
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 16, 2022
Republicans are feeling mighty confident about their prospects in this fall’s mid-term elections. There’s good reason. Joe Biden is an extremely unpop...
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Angry trucker protests could happen in US, too
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 15, 2022
WASHINGTON — The pictures from Ottawa over the last two weeks have defied every American stereotype of Canadians. We think of our northern neighbors a...
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Unify on competing with China
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 15, 2022
Under the shadow of growing tensions with Beijing, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would help the United States remain econ...
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Inflation hardest on the poor
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 14, 2022
Consumer prices jumped 7.5% compared to last January, with necessities — electricity, gasoline, used cars, many food items — up at astonishing levels....
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Blue states’ SALT problem
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 12, 2022
There was grim news out of Washington for high-income earners in blue states, as talks over increasing the deductibility of state and local taxes, kno...
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It was never about the science
Opinion, Сolumns
NOAH FINLEY 
Feb 11, 2022
DETROIT (TNS) — When the first COVID-19 mandates were issued in hopes of turning back a mysterious pandemic, there wasn’t enough science or data avail...
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Want to ban a book? Assign it for English class
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Feb 11, 2022
As I write, the recently inaugurated Republican governor of Virginia is engaged in a Twitter war with a mouthy high school kid. And losing. It’s like ...
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Other Voices: Jan. 6 overload
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 11, 2022
You can't turn on the news without being flooded with the Jan. 6, 2020, Capitol riot. Seems to me that Congress has better things to address, like may...
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The lockdowns didn’t work
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 11, 2022
A study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that extended shutdowns had almost no effect on public health, while coming at tremendous c...
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GOP backward or forward?
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Feb 10, 2022
There is a wrenching debate going on inside the Republican Party over the simplest of questions: Should the party look backward or forward? Just becau...
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Budget further exposes inequities
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 09, 2022
As Gov. Tom Wolf proposed a new budget Tuesday that would mitigate the government’s inequitable education funding, legislative Republicans continued t...
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The GOP’s internal struggle
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 09, 2022
In an ideal world, it wouldn’t be hard for the Republican Party to do two things. The first is to acknowledge that former President Donald Trump’s cla...
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