Opinion

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Opinion: ‘Great genes’ jeans ad has gotten people talking

How nice to have the Sydney Sweeney “great genes” controversy. It is happily of no consequence, which is just what we need for escape from unhinged behavior spilling out of Washington. Donald Trump’s sending nuclear subs toward Russia, a likely distraction from his tangle with Jeffrey ...

Opinion: Trump’s damage will take a lifetime to undo

Donald Trump’s conquering of the country is complete. The blows he’s inflicted on American democracy will take a lifetime to heal. The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, a woman, for a poor jobs and growth report. That is a death knell — or a deep chill — for ...

Opinion: Trump drives wedges into his movement

Remember when then-candidate Donald Trump said during an Iowa campaign rally in 2016 that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” I quickly put that aside as just another example of the New Yorker’s outlandish braggadocio, ...

Letter to the editor: Use your gift to fight tyranny

To the editor: With CoreCivic threatening to open an ICE detention center in Leavenworth, I’m haunted by a play I did in junior high about Holocaust survivors mentioned in Anne Frank’s diary. I never imagined I’d look at my notes again for anything other than nostalgia. But here we ...

Letter to the editor: Commander in chief? Hardly

To the editor: After the former president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, made a silly threat on social media, Trump responded by saying he was ordering two nuclear submarines into positions closer to Russia. In fact, the nuclear subs sail on secret routes known only to the crew and Trump has ...