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National Columnists

How politics hasn’t changed since Jefferson

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers. In fact, the election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that’s made Donald Trump’s three presidential contests a wild ride. Accusations of foreign ...

Electoral College keeps our country intact

It seems that as more and more time goes by, my appreciation for the ingeniousness of our Founding Fathers elevates. I write this before knowing the outcome of the election. I sit behind a “veil of ignorance,” with no advance knowledge of who will win the popular vote and who will win in ...

Rallies joyful despite polarizing races

With Election Day approaching, I was looking at photos on a website of early voters and people who have attended the closing rallies of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. The images of individuals actually depict a sense of joyfulness in the midst of what has been ...

Unity isn’t realistic, even desirable goal

Kamala Harris is avoiding being seen in public with President Joe Biden, for understandable reasons. That doesn’t change the fact that she’s running for Biden’s second term, and doing it with Biden’s old message. It’s easy to forget given how he governed, but Biden campaigned on ...

It’s most important election of our lifetimes

Every four years, we hear a refrain that the presidential election before us is the “most important election of our lifetimes.” This line is reflexively repeated by pundits, talkers and thinkers on both sides of the American political divide, and that repetition always engenders a great ...

Where are you, Jefferson, Madison?

My family and friends are angry with me because I won’t tell them for whom I plan to vote for president. I have not voted for the Republican or Democrat for president since 1984, when I happily voted for Ronald Reagan. Since those days, the Democrats have gravitated to principles of big ...