Opinion

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Opinion: We must stand up to Trump’s fund

For all the Middle American street cred he once commanded, Vice President JD Vance has turned into a disappointing tool for power. He and I were reared in the same Ohio steel town, a generation apart, and that once gave me a soft spot for him. But I was appalled last week by the way he dodged ...

Letter to the editor: An outrageous slush fund

To the editor: Just when you think the Current Occupant has reached rock bottom, he does something to prove you wrong. The most recent occurrence is the creation, with the assistance of the acting attorney general, of a $1.776 billion slush fund to pay individuals who were charged with federal ...

Opinion: One time is happenstance; three times is propaganda

Hamas is winning the propaganda war against Israel. And it’s picked up an important ally in The New York Times, supposedly America’s newspaper of record. Israel’s founding document established a Jewish state in 1948 “for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on ...

Opinion: Does it matter who plays Helen of Troy?

It’s the controversy that has launched a thousand X posts. Elon Musk, who is a fan of Homer, has kicked up a fuss by objecting to filmmaker Christopher Nolan casting the Black actress Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his forthcoming movie version of “The Odyssey.” The epic ...

Opinion: How corrupt is this administration?

This is the Trump era, which means if you blink, you will miss another shattering example of unabashed corruption. I don’t usually write about the same topic twice in a row, but the latest revelations of Trump’s wanton, shameless profiteering from the White House cannot go unremarked. The ...