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"As always with Trump overreach, this has become a mess in every kind of way," writes columnist Chris Brennan. bit.ly/4d...
09/07/2026

"As always with Trump overreach, this has become a mess in every kind of way," writes columnist Chris Brennan. bit.ly/4dkOOt8

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"Has there ever been a wartime president this flippant?" writes columnist Rex Huppke. bit.ly/4649wK7📸: Kylie Cooper/Reut...
09/07/2026

"Has there ever been a wartime president this flippant?" writes columnist Rex Huppke. bit.ly/4649wK7

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"It’s an ugly and sad fight. They can’t even agree on the baby’s name," writes columnist Ingrid Jacques. bit.ly/4qS4s4Q📸...
09/07/2026

"It’s an ugly and sad fight. They can’t even agree on the baby’s name," writes columnist Ingrid Jacques. bit.ly/4qS4s4Q

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Opinion: As we remember the nearly 3,000 people who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, we asked what you experienced that day...
09/07/2026

Opinion: As we remember the nearly 3,000 people who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, we asked what you experienced that day. Here's what readers told us.

Readers reflect on 9/11. 'I worked in Midtown Manhattan, and I distinctly remember walking to my office, thinking just how lovely a day it was.'

Opinion: Calling someone lazy describes what we see; it does not tell us why it is happening – or what might change it.
09/07/2026

Opinion: Calling someone lazy describes what we see; it does not tell us why it is happening – or what might change it.

Gen Z is told to build success while traditional markers of adulthood – financial independence, stable work, home ownership – feel harder to reach.

Opinion: There was never a real choice between holding police accountable and supporting law enforcement. Public safety ...
09/07/2026

Opinion: There was never a real choice between holding police accountable and supporting law enforcement. Public safety requires both.

We watched George Floyd murdered on camera six years ago. Yet, even in 2020, our government demanded more scrutiny of police power than it does now.

"Awareness of what Mica Miller endured won't undo what happened to her. But it might be its own small measure of justice...
09/07/2026

"Awareness of what Mica Miller endured won't undo what happened to her. But it might be its own small measure of justice," writes columnist Nicole Russell. bit.ly/3SLK60K

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"They did their utmost to find any human survivors of that awful day. They were willing to give us their all," writes Dr...
09/07/2026

"They did their utmost to find any human survivors of that awful day. They were willing to give us their all," writes Dr. Amy Attas, a veterinarian who helped treat the search-and-rescue dogs at Ground Zero. bit.ly/3B3lWoZ

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"The actual promises Trump and Republican lawmakers made haven’t panned out. At all. So now they have nothing to share w...
09/06/2026

"The actual promises Trump and Republican lawmakers made haven’t panned out. At all. So now they have nothing to share with the American public beyond whatever fake content Trump posts on his Truth Social account," writes columnist Rex Huppke. bit.ly/468OUQN

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Opinion: I hope my fellow Americans enjoy laboring, because we’re all going to be doing a lot more of it in order to aff...
09/06/2026

Opinion: I hope my fellow Americans enjoy laboring, because we’re all going to be doing a lot more of it in order to afford pretty much everything.

Get ready for everything to get more expensive. Labor Day weekend was ushered in by news that diesel fuel prices hit a record high.

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