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Editorial: Suddenly, Iran is desperate to come to the table

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The Iranian regime’s tragic miscalculations continue. As Israeli’s air offensive wreaks havoc on Tehran and environs, Iran now leaks through diplomatic channels that it is prepared to talk about a deal involving its nuclear program. But what incentive is there for Israel to back down when it has become increasingly clear that Iran’s ...Read more

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Steve Lopez: Five months after wildfires, it's still PTSD for animals -- Pets trying to shake depression

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Now and again, while walking Philly near the Rose Bowl, I bump into a dog trainer named Eldon, who generously offers pointers.

My cheesesteak-shaped beagle used to go on strike during walks, but he’s improving thanks in part to Eldon’s tips. I wanted to write about that, but Eldon said he’s mostly retired and doesn’t need the publicity....Read more

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Commentary: RFK Jr. vaccine panel puts nation at risk

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On June 9, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired all 17 members of a key panel of medical and science experts overseeing the use of vaccines for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This move contradicted the explicit assurances Kennedy gave before his Senate confirmation to Sen. Bill ...Read more

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Commentary: East African governments turn up repression as the US turns away

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I met Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan human rights defender, in late May at the Oslo Freedom Forum, an event celebrating activists against authoritarianism. She was petite but powerful, bruised but not broken. Traveling to this event was her latest act of defiance.

Only days earlier, she and Boniface Mwangi, a high-profile Kenyan activist, had been...Read more

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Commentary: Tech is advancing. Your standard of living isn't -- Thanks to government

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Since the widespread rollout of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022, the world has begun to grapple with a wave of technological progress unlike anything seen since the advent of the internet. The pace of innovation is accelerating, self-driving cars are becoming more commonplace, and Tesla is developing a commercially available humanoid robot ...Read more

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Editorial: Anti-Trump 'No Kings' protests were a success, yet Democrats fail to meet the moment

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The “No Kings Day” protests turned into a celebration of freedom and democracy, while President Donald Trump’s military-style dictator day parade was a costly flop with empty seats and a president who looked bored by the lack of goose-stepping and adulation.

Meanwhile, more than five million marched in events held in cities and towns ...Read more

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Adrian Wooldridge: Reagan wasn't the conservative he's made out to be

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For those of us of a certain age and sensibility, Ronald Reagan is the quintessential American conservative. He not only vanquished the Evil Empire and restored business’s animal spirits. He rode a horse, wore a cowboy hat and, when his wife came to visit him in hospital after he survived a 1981 assassination attempt, quipped “honey, I ...Read more

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Editorial: No to US war in Iran

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The United States’ security interests in Iran do not justify direct American involvement in the ongoing war between the Islamic Republic and Israel, and specifically do not justify the direct attack on an Iranian nuclear facility the Israeli government wants.

President Donald Trump must keep his campaign promise to be a peace president, which...Read more

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Tom Philp: California Democrats defend 'illegal immigrants' but need a broader agenda

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In the recent state budget approved by Sacramento Democrats, lawmakers gave a high priority to preserving health care for undocumented Californians as they eliminated the main program to shelter the state’s homeless residents.

In the approved federal budget, President Donald Trump has frozen available funding for needs such as international ...Read more

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Commentary: Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill” threatens democracy and federal deficit

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As a lifelong marketer and Consumer Behavior professor, it’s interesting to observe how people’s opinions change as details of an issue become more apparent. Behavioral change – once information and knowledge increase – is common among people who are open-minded, educated, and critical thinkers.

For example, a YouGov/Economist poll ...Read more

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Editorial: Stoking the fire -- Trump has edged on political extremism

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During his 10 years as a dominant political force, President Donald Trump has thrived on chaos and with his harsh and cruel vitriolic language and actions against anyone he dislikes or scorns, he encourages division, the opposite of what leaders should do.

This nasty atmosphere encourages hatred and extremism and it has contributed to a culture...Read more

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PETA: Fork in the forest -- How going vegan saves trees and lives

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The Lorax would be appalled: In 2024, trees vanished faster than ever before—forests the size of 18 soccer fields disappeared every minute, according to researchers at the University of Maryland and the World Resources Institute.

This record-breaking loss included 6.7 million hectares of rainforest, much of which was purposely burned to ...Read more

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Anita Chabria: The gaslighting of Alex Padilla is already in full swing on the right

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Lunging men are perceived as dangerous.

In an America that has long weaponized descriptions of how men of color look and move to justify use of force, that is especially true of dark men lunging at white women.

So when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said after Sen. Alex Padilla interrupted her news conference Thursday that “people ...Read more

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Andreas Kluth: Republicans are (almost) ready for maximum pressure on Russia

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The epiphany of common sense came late in an otherwise tedious congressional subcommittee hearing, and from a Democrat, Representative Jim Costa. He gets that Republicans and the administration of Donald Trump take pride in exerting “maximum pressure” on Iran, Costa made clear. But at this “seminal moment in American and world history,” ...Read more

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Commentary: Trump's war on Latinos reaches a new low in abuse of Sen. Alex Padilla

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The U.S. population includes an estimated 65.2 million Latinos, nearly a quarter of whom call California home. For over a century, Latinos were absent from the state’s two U.S. Senate seats.

In 2022, Sen. Alex Padilla reversed the willful neglect of Latino senatorial candidates by both major political parties, winning 61.1% of the vote, more...Read more

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Editorial: Shootings of Minnesota lawmakers are a blow to trust and good faith

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Rep. Melissa Hortman, former speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, were killed in their home early Saturday morning by someone impersonating a police officer. Several miles away, state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot multiple times by someone also presenting themselves as an officer of the law. As of this ...Read more

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Editorial: Trump's big ugly -- One Big Beautiful Bill will do great damage

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President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is indeed Big. But Beautiful it is not. The massive bill he is touting as the best thing to ever happen to America would be, no exaggeration, one of the worst pieces of legislation to come along in the modern era.

Take a seat if you don’t already have one so we can count the ways.

Many prior ...Read more

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Leonard Greene: 'No Kings' protesters rain on Trump's military parade

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President Donald Trump wants a war.

If he can’t get a trade war with Canada or China or all of Europe, he’ll settle for a war on democracy by deploying troops on American soil to punish peaceful protesters.

And, as if that was not enough, Trump was determined on Saturday to waste taxpayer money on a jingoistic military parade, like the ...Read more

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Commentary: ICE officers should not be allowed to wear masks

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Last year, students on college and university campuses across the country gathered to protest military actions by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza. Fearing retribution and targeting by universities, police and others for their speech, many of the students donned masks to cover their faces.

In response, state and local legislators introduced...Read more

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Commentary: Greater virtue in victimhood than in victory?

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In a world where we enjoy more comforts and freedoms than any generation before us, why do so many of us feel like victims? Our ancestors fought for the rights we now take for granted — facing slavery, segregation and disenfranchisement with courage and resolve.

Yet today, the language of victimhood blankets everything from micro-aggressions ...Read more

 

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