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Opinion

We are witnessing nation-saving, global saving

National Columnists

For 20 years, President Donald Trump has maintained that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. Much of the Western world, from European powers to American presidents, has given lip service to that idea, but has done little to restrict Tehran’s theocratic leaders from building a bomb. Though ...

Prayer is what our nation needs now

National Columnists

When I read the shocking news of the assassinations of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, along with the attempted murders of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, it felt like watching a tragic political thriller unfold in real time. The Hoffmans miraculously ...

Donald Trump is new type of Republican moderate

National Columnists

We’re used to thinking of Republican moderates as nice people from Blue states or swing districts, who speak in dulcet tones and oppose going “too far” on anything. These politicians still exist, but the image of the Republican moderate is out of date. Think less of Susan Collins, the ...

Common thread is ‘crazy love of our country’

National Columnists

Before he was David Mamet the acclaimed author, filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, he worked a variety of low-paying jobs well into his 20s: from kitchen help at a summer camp to a maintenance worker in a truck factory to working in the Merchant Marine doing maintenance on boats. ...

Obama has finally spoken after absence

National Columnists

Where is Barack Obama? Democrats had been frustrated that their charismatic former president had gone silent on MAGA. Where is that smooth, persuasive voice? It has risen. Obama has spoken, and Democrats would do well to take in the message. “You could be as progressive and socially ...

Our political leaders are no longer safe

National Columnists

Last weekend, Minnesota state Rep. and Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home after a masked man disguised as a police officer convinced the couple to open their door. The arrested suspect, 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, was a homegrown American. ...