Opinion

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Opinion: Trump’s assault on law firms telling

Last week I wrote about Trump’s crackdown on the pillars of civil society — the universities, the scientific community, the media, the legal profession, and the arts — with the clear intent of intimidating them into silence. Today I want to take a deeper dive into what Trump’s ...

Opinion: Government destroying truth itself

Much has been written about the Trump team’s assault on civil society, universities, public health, the judiciary and our global alliances, and rightly so — but there is one danger that deserves more attention because our ability to thwart this attempted revolution, this upending of our ...

Opinion: The Signalgate text thread continues

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Letter to the editor: What bravery

To the editor: Congratulations to our brave state legislators who stood firm and overrode the governor’s veto of their bill to require all mail-in ballots to be in hand by the end of election day. They showed that they are aligned with the great Donald’s efforts to preserve our election ...

Letter to the editor: A horror show we all will feel

To the editor: It is horrifying to watch the destruction of governmental agencies by a presidential administration that doesn’t even try to hide its lawless behavior. It might be even harder to watch the Republicans in Congress acquiesce to most of these changes with nary a whimper, and ...

Opinion: Rhetoric & reality on manufacturing

If you believe the political rhetoric, you probably think America’s industrial base has been hollowed out, gutted or “shipped overseas.” Across the ideological spectrum, people say U.S. manufacturing is in decline. They argue mostly about who’s to blame and how many tariffs we need to ...