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High gas prices: The pain is the point
Opinion, Сolumns
KEVIN ROBERTS 
Apr 18, 2022
By early April, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. had reached $4.23, up more than 78% in the 14 months since President Joe Biden ...
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The cost of China’s harsh COVID policies
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Apr 18, 2022
The stories from Shanghai, a city of 25 million entering its fourth week of COVID-19 lockdown, have been harrowing. Millions have been confined to the...
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At least pick low-hanging fruit
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 10, 2022
Only days after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that most nations aren’t meeting their commitments to reduce green...
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Seeking asylum isn’t a crime
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 05, 2022
The Biden administration restored a modicum of reality to U.S. immigration policy recently when it rescinded what was known as Title 42. That measure,...
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Pressure pro-Russia businesses
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 20, 2022
In his address to Congress last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy implored the United States to provide the materiel he needs to hold off ...
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List Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism
Opinion, Сolumns
JASON M. BLAZAKIS / Tribune News Service 
Mar 06, 2022
Almost daily since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States and allies in Europe and Asia have been tightening the sanctions vise on Moscow. Ye...
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Welcome to Cold War 2.0. It won’t be easy
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 01, 2022
No matter how Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ends, it already marks a turning point in history: the end of a 30-year period of relative peace in...
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Putin has a way out
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 08, 2022
When Russia’s Vladimir Putin massed 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, the United States and its European allies responded with a hastily assembled ...
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Nobody said nuclear deal with Iran would be easy
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 07, 2021
Diplomats from Iran, the United States and five other powers gathered in Vienna last week to try to revive President Barack Obama’s 2015 deal limiting...
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Biden wants China focus; Putin has another idea
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 30, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden arrived in the White House 10 months ago with two top foreign policy priorities: He wanted to rebuild the alliances h...
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Afghans filled with gratitude
Opinion, Сolumns
JOYCE DAVIS 
Nov 18, 2021
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Afghan refugees who are making new homes in Central Pennsylvania know they have escaped war and probable death. It doesn’t matt...
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Catching up with China and the developed world
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Nov 13, 2021
The Infrastructure bill may help the United States close the huge gap with Beijing and its democratic allies on transportation, internet coverage, and...
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A fast-changing world
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Nov 09, 2021
WASHINGTON — The world is changing faster than our sluggish political leaders — let alone the public — can manage. The COVID-19 virus and climate chan...
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What’s next? Leeches?
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Sep 24, 2021
Americans are currently experiencing one of the most peculiar public episodes of my lifetime. Amid a deadly worldwide disease epidemic, many people ar...
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Liberty Medal shines a needed light on dissidents
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Sep 18, 2021
Many people ask me how the United States can claim to promote human rights after its abandonment of Afghan women — and its inability to move China on ...
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The world needs more COVID vaccines
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 08, 2021
President Joe Biden has a huge opportunity in the next few months to regain his footing as a foreign policy president after the fall of Kabul — a chan...
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Fall of Kabul not the end of US global power
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Aug 23, 2021
Amid the chaos in Kabul, politicians and pundits have declared the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan a defeat from which U.S. influence may never recov...
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