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Opinion

Harris doesn’t address immigration issues

National Columnists

Kamala Harris isn’t great at answering questions, but is perhaps at her very worst in addressing the border. This isn’t because she can’t string sentences together (she can, although the results are always mixed), or that she doesn’t know what she’s saying (she’s quite deliberate ...

Meritocracy abandoned for tribalism

National Columnists

Racism and sexism endure. Think of the “Unite the Right” white supremacist, neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. But sometimes unexpected voices fan the flames. As the civil rights movement gathered steam, colorblindness was the end game. Ballots could not identify candidates by ...

Many churches have Gen Z issue

National Columnists

While perusing through updates on my LinkedIn page last week, I came across a post highlighting a thought-provoking feature from The New York Times’ national correspondent Clyde McGrady, who covers the influence of race and identity in American culture. The title of McGrady’s piece is ...

Trump is 2024’s ‘Beetlejuice’ candidate

National Columnists

It’s not often that Donald Trump engages in understatement, but he did in his oft-repeated statement back in January 2016: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, OK, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” he marveled just before that year’s Iowa caucuses. ...

Scout troop seeks leaders

Letters to the Editor

Lucas Fairaizl, First Class Scout, Deering The reason why I’m writing this is because Boy Scout Troop 425 of Minot has had a great impact on me as well as many other people in making them more responsible as well as nicer people. Troop 425 is currently looking for a Scoutmaster and other ...

We can protect people who need Social Security

National Columnists

The United States is at a crossroads. You may have heard that Social Security is politically impossible to reform. But that belief will be hard to sustain. In a few years, the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted. When that happens, Social Security benefits will be cut across the board ...