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Starting the school year strong: Simple ways families can stay connected

A new school year always seems to bring a little bit of everything, excitement, nervousness, new routines, busy mornings, and maybe even a few missing shoes or forgotten lunch boxes. For children, the first few weeks are about getting used to new teachers, classmates, schedules, and ...

A foolhardy conflict with an inoffensive ally

President Trump's tariffs aren't popular, but he's found a way to make them even less so -- a trade war with America's most inoffensive ally. When one thinks of countries that deserve to be subjected to a steady stream of insults (it's Lake America now, not Lake Ontario) and a punishing ...

Democrats try to brush aside ‘Woke 1’

"Woke 1' was crazy." So said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on ABC News' "This Week" earlier this month. She said she was quoting New York City Councilman Chi Osse, whom The New York Times characterizes as "far left." This was where Ocasio-Cortez seemed to be located on the ...

Data centers: Progress need not come at the expense of our communities

As demand for artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital services grows, communities across the country are being approached about constructing massive data centers. These facilities may promise jobs, investment and increased tax revenue, but before welcoming widespread development, ...

Our broken trust

In April of 2020, San Clemente, Calif., dumped 37 tons of sand into a skate park to keep teenagers out of it. Down the coast, deputies arrested a man for paddleboarding alone in the Pacific Ocean. Towns unbolted basketball rims. The mayor of Los Angeles told Angelenos that snitches get ...

Clarence Thomas played the long game. He won

An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), "Going Further," calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in the early 1990s, his conservative, originalist views were relegated to dissenting opinions. Three and a half decades later, Thomas, now the second-longest-serving justice in the court's history, regularly finds himself in the majority. Thomas, in short, has won the long game. But how? Thirty-five years ago, mainstream legal training and ...