Opinion: The grinding persistence of America’s police problem
You will not believe the video that was released Friday night showing Memphis police officers beating -- ultimately to death -- a young Black man.
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Opinion: Tyre Nichols’ death is America’s shame
The spectacle of a televised countdown to the showing of the video in which Tyre Nichols was savagely beaten by Memphis police officers doesn't just theatrical…
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Opinion: Don’t feel guilty about taxing the wealthy
As our nation bumps up hard against a national debt north of $31 trillion, let's start with the obvious: Our expenditures are greater than our revenue.
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Opinion: Can anything be done to assuage rural rage?
Rural resentment has become a central fact of American politics -- in particular, a pillar of support for the rise of right-wing extremism.
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Opinion: I don’t like goodbyes. How about ‘Thanks, and until later’ instead?
I don't really know how to say goodbye. But I must.
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Opinion: New Year in America, same as the old year, but with an AR-15 for kids
As for that inappreciable discussion about when in the New Year you should stop saying "Happy New Year," we might finally have hit on a solution here in the go…
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Opinion: America has a debt problem, and the answer starts with form 1040
Washington's favorite show, "Debt Ceiling Chicken," is playing again in the big white theater on Capitol Hill.
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Opinion: Does America have too much debt?
The U.S. federal government last ran a budget surplus in the fiscal year 2001. (Fiscal years begin in October of the previous calendar year.
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Opinion: Will Mike Pence’s classified documents discovery let Biden off the hook?
The discovery of classified documents in former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana residence is a clarifying and pivotal event that throws into sharp relief c…
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Opinion: We already know which gun policies work
Rand Corporation, the think tank with origins in Cold War military planning, recently issued its latest update on gun policy research.
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Opinion: Budgetel had to be closed but Silverdale is fine?
We noticed last week that Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp, who said she couldn't unsee and couldn't unsmell some the things she saw at the Budgetel…
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Opinion: Who will be the evangelicals’ new kingmaker?
Thank God, the witch is dead.
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Opinion: Affordable housing needs still real for Budgetel refugees
The Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition is now covering the cost of 18 hotel rooms for families displaced from the Budgetel Inn.
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Opinion: The new cutting edge of abortion-rights legislation
Linda Prine spends a lot of time speaking to frantic women navigating the end of Roe v. Wade.
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Opinion: Monterey Park shooting is horrific, but all too familiar
"Who walks into a dance hall and guns down 20 people?" Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna asked, hours after 11 people were shot dead and at least 9 more w…