Opinion

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Opinion: The midterms that renewed a nation

Though this year’s smashing Democratic victory was unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes, perhaps the most striking thing is that on the morning after, it all felt so reassuringly normal. The election went forward at all 78,000 polling places. Hundreds of thousands of election workers ...

Letter to the editor: Words to spark compromise

To the editor: In the Nov. 6 Journal-World, Chad Lawhorn wrote that relationships begin or change with language used. Negative language gets negative results; positive language gets positive results. The first step in a relationship depends on how language used fosters fair ...

Opinion: Vance has no idea what voters want

I regret to inform you that we are now one week into the 2028 presidential election cycle. This is the stage where various factions try to shape the conventional wisdom to support their particular agenda. For Democrats, that’s a difficult process, because they so wildly overperformed in the ...

Opinion: The Democratic Socialists aren’t very diverse

Some interesting numbers: New York’s 13th Congressional District, covering northern Manhattan and part of the Bronx, is 52% Hispanic, 23% Black and only 14% white. Yet in June’s Democratic primary, voters dumped five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat, head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, ...