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Opinion

Battle ahead for capitalism vs. Mamdani

National Columnists

As Zohran Mamdani rides frontrunner status in the final seven weeks before the mayoral election, he’s moving rapidly to the left. Despite efforts by the business community to build bridges with Mamdani, he is ratcheting up his anti-capitalist rhetoric, equating profit with greed, rolling out ...

Football players use their ministry gifts

National Columnists

With the 2025 college football season underway, the Ohio State Buckeyes are hoping to defend their national title and once again forge their way through the playoffs. Their path to the title of beating four ranked teams was epic last year, especially after a disappointing loss to Michigan. ...

Columnist represents world of caring for each other

National Columnists

A 99-year-old woman died Sept. 16. Though I’d never met her, I cried as I read her obituary. Her name was Marilyn Hagerty, and even as a nonagenarian, she was still writing the same gentle restaurant reviews that had made her briefly but brilliantly famous. She wasn’t famous in the new ...

Back when children walked to school

National Columnists

When I was a boy, my brothers and I walked more than 2 miles every weekday. This was because we lived a little bit more than a mile from the school we attended. Our home was in the Dominican neighborhood of San Rafael, California, which was named for Dominican College, the then-all-girls ...

‘Show Me Your Papers!’ brings change

National Columnists

”The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, ...

How painter builds community through art, kindness

National Columnists

On the Fourth of July, Tres Taylor woke with a heavy heart. Congress had just passed what President Donald Trump called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but it felt pretty ugly considering it included $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs that help our nation’s most ...