Opinion

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Opinion: Paying off Trumps pays off big time

Warren Buffett made billions spotting undervalued assets. Today, many billionaires have decided the cheapest buy on the market is influence over the Trump administration. Take the recent purchase of CBS owner Paramount Global by Skydance Media. The companies needed approval for the ...

Opinion: Map fight is about Johnson County

It’s not about defeating Sharice Davids. After all, a Democrat occupying one of the four congressional seats is nothing new. It’s not about appeasing Trump. Republicans’ penchant to gerrymander predates his involvement. It’s about Johnson County. For decades, JoCo ...

Opinion: Lights are out in the federal government

Nobody home. Gone fishing. The lights are out in the federal government. The House of Representatives chamber is deserted and silent as a tomb. It’s almost as if its Republican leaders don’t care if the country is in crisis. While the president carries out a bloody plot to snuff ...

Opinion: Stop trampling on our universities

In the course of three days, six U.S.-based scientists have won Nobel Prizes. Every one of them studied or now works at America’s public universities. Five were affiliated with or educated by California’s system for higher education. President Donald Trump’s assault on universities, ...

Opinion: Trump mistakes 2020 video for what’s going on now

When over the weekend federal Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) blocked Trump from deploying Oregon’s National Guard to Portland, Trump said she “should be ashamed of herself” because “Portland is burning to the ground.” Trump promptly ordered the California National Guard to ...

Opinion: Democrats, stop being MAGA’s mommy

Exactly why are the Democrats trying to save Republicans from a drubbing in the midterms? Their shutdown of the government to stop cuts in health coverage does not work to their political advantage — or ultimately help those they purport to be protecting. Republicans running for ...