Opinion

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Opinion: Departure stirs a scramble amid new generation

As President Trump’s polling takes a tumble 100 days into his second term — and Dick Durbin, the Senate’s second ranking Democrat, announces his retirement, a very old hit tune by Ethel Waters comes to mind: “There’ll be some changes made.” I’m gonna change my way of livin’, ...

Opinion: Trump manages to shift his own vibe

The vibe around President Trump’s second term has shifted, and it’s all his doing. The president entered office with a bit of a wind at his back. His polling was better than the first time around, protestors weren’t in the streets, and federal investigators weren’t after him. The GOP ...

Opinion: A depraved heart lurks in the White House

New York courts have found President Donald J. Trump to be a felon and liar. Colorado courts found him to be an insurrectionist (even though the U.S. Supreme Court blocked attempts to take him off the ballot). I’d like to add one more accusation to his rap sheet: attempted murder. Now, I ...

Opinion: Trump has a family policy; stop laughing

The animating beliefs of this administration range from dangerously wrong to head-spinningly crazy. Tariffs are in the first tranche, along with the myth that NATO has been ripping off the United States for decades, that immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans and that “He ...

Letter to the editor: What will it take?

To the editor: Recently ICE was forced to release a U.S. born citizen it mistakenly took into custody. Protests and quick acting attorneys saved him from a fate like Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The Trump regime never wants to admit mistakes. Instead of releasing Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez ...

Opinion: America’s values are slipping away

Late in the new Broadway show “Operation Mincemeat,” the sparklingly inventive musical comedy based on British Intelligence’s deception of Adolf Hitler about Allied war plans during World War II, the marvelous slapstick pauses momentarily. “If people like us just blindly follow ...