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Why you should celebrate fall

Sad, funeral music accompanies the turning of colors in northern MIchigan when the nights get cooler, the leaves turn orange, and pumpkin spice everything fills the store shelves. Take a day to mourn the summer months — wake up the next and embrace the opportunity for rest. Summer carries ...

Toward a post-Trump politics

From the clutter of midterm election poll results, it's possible sometimes to see new patterns of political support emerging. The overall pattern, as it stands, makes some sense. As in the 2006 and 2018 off-year cycles, the Republican president's job approval had sagged to well below 50%. ...

Doctors, don't quit your day jobs

Some noise has been made lately about the imminent redundancy of the job of physician, thanks to the ascendancy of artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology. The latest volley in the discussion comes via a JAMA essay, terrifyingly titled, "Will Autonomous AI Exceed AI-Aided Physicians ...

What's the matter with Kansas' senators?

The home of Dwight Eisenhower and Amelia Earhart is rarely part of the national conversation -- but that could be about to change. It is becoming clear that the race for Senate this year could be a huge upset. In the 19th century, Kansas was the scene of violent clashes over slavery, which ...

Trump's Greenland agreement Is the 'Art of the Deal' in action

In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million. The deal was widely ridiculed. Critics called it "Seward's Folly," after the secretary of state and lead negotiator, William Seward. In hindsight, given the state's immense natural resources and strategic location, it's tough to think of Alaska as anything other than one of America's most important territorial expansions since Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Yet many have still not learned their lesson about the Monroe Doctrine, which warned foreign powers not to meddle with the U.S. in our ...