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Editorials and columns

Feeding the Leviathan

The economy can be both very complex and very simple. In simplified terms, consider two buckets. One is the public sector, and one is the private sector. As more money flows into the bucket of the public sector and fills it up, the private sector bucket does not fill up. However, the private ...

Win or lose, our natural world is worth the fight

In May, my son and I gathered with hundreds of our neighbors at a community meeting to protest a pickleball and tennis complex planned for our local park. We're not against the sports. My son likes to play tennis with his dad. What we objected to was clearing trees and utilizing green space for ...

Public safety and the presidency

President Donald Trump argued last week that as a result of the federal enhancement of police work in Washington, D.C., the city has gone in four days from being the most dangerous in America to being the safest. He cited no evidence but relied apparently on his own observations and anecdotal ...

Trump’s war on mail-in voting

President Donald Trump is declaring war on mail-in voting. In a recent announcement, the president stated that an executive order to end mail-in voting in federal elections is currently being drafted. There's been a lot of talk over the past two presidential cycles over mail-in voting and ...

Trump’s cocktail of racism and spectacle: shaken in L.A., stirred in D.C.

Donald Trump sent National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles. As a follow-up, he deployed the National Guard and FBI agents on the streets of Washington, D.C. The two cities were carefully chosen. What's a better symbol of diversity, 21st-century culture and illusion than Los Angeles, ...

Inconvenient truths about the Trump-Putin peace talks

PARIS — When US President Donald Trump met with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, at a U.S. military base in Alaska last week, the world united in hope. Just kidding. They mostly just bickered over who "won" the peace smackdown. You would think that the prospect of ...