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Opinion

Unsung heroine inspires others to volunteer

National Columnists

Eileen Cunningham is a mother of four and grandmother of three with another on the way. The wife of “Goose” Cunningham — when you are from Hazelwood, Pennsylvania, everyone has a nickname — possesses the unique quality of bringing people together to form communities. How? The natural ...

Make sure US dominates telecommunications

National Columnists

Trump’s announcement and executive order to ensure that the U.S. dominates the artificial intelligence revolution was a welcome America First policy directive. That mostly means keeping the government out of the way. But an equally vital industry for our economic and national security ...

Why are we fixating on 2028 election?

National Columnists

August is usually downtime in Washington. Congress is in recess, the heat and humidity contribute to the desire to escape town for cooler weather, the president is normally somewhere else and cable news is focused on shark attacks. Not this August. Cable news, especially, along with some ...

Just sayin’ – Obama’s tracks led to Trump

National Columnists

Happy 64th birthday (Aug. 4) to the 44th president, Barack Obama. Effortlessly cool, the first Black president proved a soaring speaker up there with John F. Kennedy, and the bringer of the Affordable Care Act. Also on the record: Obama never played hard against Donald Trump, Mitch ...

Truman made right decision to drop bomb

National Columnists

Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential understatements of all time, Emperor Hirohito told the people of Japan that “the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.” He was originally going to say that “the war situation has deteriorated day by day,” ...

It’s OK, parents — getting mad isn’t illegal

National Columnists

When I was in high school, rarely was an insult worse than calling someone “fake.” “Gosh, I love your shoes,” a girl might say, sitting next to you in chemistry, simultaneously giving you a side-eye that communicated much more convincingly that she did not, actually, love your shoes ...