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Opinion

Trump makes deal of lifetime for US Steel

National Columnists

Local steelworkers, community leaders and economic experts said President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that a deal was struck between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel will go down in American history as the most enduring economic “big, beautiful deal” the 47th president has made. It is ...

Big Beautiful Bill now up to Senate

National Columnists

The House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill by a margin of one vote. Well-deserved kudos have been conveyed to the masterful leadership of Speaker Mike Johnson, who navigated through a minefield to get done what needed to get done. Now it’s up to the Senate. It’s impossible not to ...

Finally there’s some discussion on national debt

National Columnists

As the Senate takes up the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (Donald Trump’s name for it) passed by the House last week, there’s finally some discussion of the national debt. That’s because the bill is estimated to add $3.8 trillion over the next decade to the current debt: $37 trillion, or ...

Are we losing our humanity, empathy?

National Columnists

On the night of May 21, someone shot two young Israeli Embassy employees walking out of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., after an event. Police said the suspect shouted, “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested. In a New York Times post about the attack, one commenter ...

Some final thoughts on ‘Sinners’

National Columnists

Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” continues to be highly praised over a month after its April 18 release date. People are still flocking to theaters to see this horror thriller set in the early 1930s in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Many have seen it multiple times for its deep analysis of the cultural ...

Trump, Harvard, brawl not just about institution

National Columnists

Has Donald Trump declared war on Albert Einstein? “America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain,” The Economist warns. As soon as the Department of Homeland Security announced Harvard University would no longer be allowed to enroll foreign students, the Eurasia Group’s ...