Opinion

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Opinion: What we’ve traded for bread and circuses

My son performs magic now. He picked it up at a friend’s birthday party — a sweet, old-fashioned affair with a magician and a goodie bag that instead of cheap plastic trinkets had the materials for three tricks basic enough that even a second grader could master them. After the pizza, ...

Letter to the editor: A global shift

To the editor: The majority of GOP officials seem to be just fine with this administration's America First isolationist stances, but they also seem to be missing a huge change in international affairs. Countries that were our allies and friends now view the U.S. as unstable and unpredictable. ...

Opinion: A cruel irony — ICE profiling Natives

In a nation as diverse as ours, immigration enforcement inevitably tests whether equal protection means what it says. Some tribal leaders in the Upper Midwest say that test is being failed in the wake of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. By the end of the week, claims of ...

Letter to the editor: Cleaning house in Congress

To the editor: Time to clean house in Washington! DO NOT SIT THIS ONE OUT! The 2026 primary election on Aug. 4 will be just as important as the general election on Nov. 3. Our current government cannot take care of its own problems — namely a trillion-dollar deficit and a broken health ...

Letter to the editor: Congressional cheerleaders

To the editor: The Congress has now officially ceded to the president its constitutional functions of levying taxes, directing spending and deciding matters of war and peace. The president himself has acknowledged publicly that there remain no institutional checks upon his power. The one ...

Letter to the editor: The ghost of Orwell

To the editor: While Ebenezer Scrooge encountered four ghosts in his Christmas reformation, I was recently visited by the ghost of George Orwell. To my surprise, George was well-versed on contemporary events in America and offered this helpful guide to interpreting the confusing news coming ...