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Commentary: I am a Mexican American who voted for Trump. No, I don't hate myself

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I’m a proud, first-generation, college-educated and gay Mexican American with undocumented family in the United States, including a mother who was previously deported to Mexico, and I experienced homelessness as a child. I am everything Democrats claim to support, right?

Wrong.

Democrats have accepted a progressive platform, ignoring decades...Read more

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Laura Washington: Here's a post-election to-do list for Democrats

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There is nothing worse for a columnist than realizing that your view of the world does not jibe with your audience’s worldview. The same holds true for a political party, and in the case of the 2024 presidential election, the Democrats. Misapprehension is a serious offense. In the wake of Nov. 5, the Democratic Party stands convicted of the ...Read more

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Kaitlyn Buss: What did Trump offer the working class?

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Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the presidential election was a stunning rebuke by the American people of the policies and leadership of the Biden-Harris administration.

When paired with Republicans taking control of Congress, it represents a clear rejection of the progressive economic and cultural agenda Democrats are pushing.

Trump’s...Read more

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Patricia Lopez: Trump's mass deportation plan has its leaders in place

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President-elect Donald Trump is moving aggressively on mass deportation, installing two of the most strident anti-immigrant voices in his circle in key positions.

Their selection sets the stage for the administration to take the hardest possible line on Trump’s signature issue: vastly reducing the number of immigrants in this country. What’...Read more

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Mihir Sharma: Trump won't take the world by surprise a second time

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Donald Trump’s first term as president caused chaos and confusion across the world. Few nations knew how to deal with him. Even now, many fear he will prove friendlier to autocrats such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping than he will to stalwart U.S. allies.

For many countries, however, the prospect of Trump’s return is less disconcerting ...Read more

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Editorial: If Trump keeps his campaign promises, it could be devastating for Idaho

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With 67% of the vote in Idaho, a vast majority of Idahoans clearly want Donald Trump to be president again.

So what’s in it for Idaho?

“Promises made, promises kept,” was a motto of the Trump campaign. So here’s a look at some of the promises made that could have a direct impact on Idaho.

Mass deportations

Trump promised mass ...Read more

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Commentary: Why do I write college recommendation letters for students? It's very simple

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It’s the time of year when students arrive at my office and ask if I will write them a college recommendation. I say, “Yes, I’ll be happy to write one for you.” Sometimes, I’ll thank them for asking in person.

There used to be more time to write recommendations. Students have to play every angle to get into a college of their choosing...Read more

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Commentary: College classrooms play a vital role in the health of democracy

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According to a recent BBC article, first-time U.S. voters reported “feeling uneasy” prior to the presidential election, with one interviewee describing the election as “very overwhelming” and another saying “it feels like we can’t have as many civil conversations.” Colleges and university classrooms are a valuable place for ...Read more

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Commentary: Parents must be mindful of what they say about the election around kids

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The day after the presidential election, I walked into my school building, and before I could enter my office, a student, who arrived very early, asked me the following question: “Dr. McNair, is slavery coming back?” I was stunned by the question, and didn’t quite know how to immediately answer it. After all, the student was 10 years old. ...Read more

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Joe Battenfeld: Nancy Pelosi, the face of doomed delusional Democrats, should resign

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Nancy Pelosi – the face of the delusional Democratic Party defeat who engineered the doomed Kamala Harris’s ascension – needs to go away.

Back to her out of touch San Francisco neighborhood, where she will spend the next four years in political oblivion.

If Pelosi thought Joe Biden was too old to be president, then it’s way past time ...Read more

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Editorial: Walgreens' woes are about more than an iconic Chicago company's future. Our health is at stake, too

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Walgreens Boots Alliance has a storied history in Chicago, starting with a single retail outlet in 1901, and expanding across the globe since then.

Today, it’s shrinking fast.

The venerable drugstore chain has said one-fourth of its 8,000-plus U.S. stores are unprofitable. Last month it announced plans to shutter 1,200 of the underperformers...Read more

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POINT: Trump delivered a win for common sense

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Common sense is back in America. Donald Trump is right: Not only is the Republican Party the “party of common sense,” but he has a clear mandate to bring common-sense policies back to America after years of radical leftist failure.

Trump’s 2024 victory is a win for normality and a crushing loss for left-wing Democrats who insist on ...Read more

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Commentary: The fall of the Berlin Wall showed us how quickly transformative change can happen

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In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best cultural, historical and political events.

On a hot summer day in June, I was among the U.S. Army and Air Force officers at Tempelhof Air Field who ...Read more

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COUNTERPOINT: A MAGA mess in the spring forecast

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Trump 2.0 is coming. What can we expect in the first few months?

Let’s think about the likely early actions in a few buckets.

The first bucket, what serves Trump? More than any previous president, Trump thinks of himself first. Two early moves to watch will be the extent to which Trump unravels or outright blows apart the myriad legal issues...Read more

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Commentary: Want to leave the country? Consider this

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In April 2023, I moved to Wellington, New Zealand. As a U.S. citizen, I had reached a point where I felt that the politics of my country were no longer a good fit for the life that I wanted to live. A year later, I moved back.

My experience as an expatriate is, I think, instructive — and perhaps of value to those who find themselves Googling ...Read more

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Commentary: Rideshare roadblocks could destroy successful platforms like Uber and Lyft

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The rideshare industry works because it provides two crucial things: on-demand rides for customers, and flexible employment for drivers.

Unfortunately, a ballot measure just approved by Massachusetts voters may mean the end of the road for this successful operation — at least as we know it — because it will take away drivers’ ...Read more

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Editorial: Trump's EPA pick will challenge the status quo

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Donald Trump has quickly begun selecting members of his governing team. On Monday, he tabbed former New York congressman Lee Zeldin to run the EPA.

Not surprisingly, progressive greens attacked the choice.

Zeldin is “obviously not what you would hope to see from the person who could be in charge of protecting the air we breathe, the water we...Read more

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LZ Granderson: Trump's election says a lot about trust in journalism

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It's easy to forget that while the first Watergate article appeared in the summer of 1972, Richard Nixon did not resign until 1974.

Over the course of those two years, Nixon won reelection in a historic landslide, mocked journalism and threatened the Washington Post repeatedly. It wasn't until the Supreme Court ordered the release of tape ...Read more

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Commentary: Despite setbacks, ranked choice voting will continue to grow

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More than 3 million people across the nation voted for better elections through ranked choice voting on Election Day, as of current returns. Ranked choice voting is poised to win majority support in all five cities where it was on the ballot, most notably with an overwhelming win in Washington, D.C.– 73 percent to 27%.

For state ballot ...Read more

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Andreas Kluth: Trump's 'new order' will be global anarchy

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You know it’s going to get interesting when Elon Musk quotes from Virgil and the Great Seal of the United States. Novus Ordo Seclorum, the tech-titan-turned-MAGA-megaphone tweeted, or rather Xed, as he basked in Donald Trump’s victory with the president-elect himself. In English: “a new order of the ages.”

On the other side of the world...Read more

 

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