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Columns

Bill Gates gets mugged by reality

By STEPHEN MOORE Syndicated columnist You’ve probably heard by now the blockbuster news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest people to ever walk the planet, has had a change of heart on climate change. For several decades, Gates poured billions of dollars into the ...

Freedom of speech has to work in both directions

By IAN HAWORTH Syndicated columnist "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a ...

Testing should be a nuclear weapons priority

By RICH LOWRY Syndicated columnist Donald Trump has trampled on another taboo, and it’s a good thing. The president said in a Truth Social post that the United States will begin “immediately” testing our “Nuclear Weapons” on “an equal basis” with Russia and China. It’s not ...

There’s better ways to cope with chaos than ignoring it

By ROBERT REICH Syndicated columnist Donald Trump is incapable of allowing tensions and stresses to ease without creating new ones. Case in point: After meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping this past week, he announces that China and the United States — the largest and ...

Thanksgiving a time to labor in spiritual harvest

By JESSICA A. JOHNSON Syndicated columnist One of the things that I have most enjoyed about my commute to work in Lima, Ohio, during the Thanksgiving season is passing small farms and viewing the fields that are being cleared after the fall corn harvest. Much of the farmland is vast and such ...

Perimenopause suddenly an ‘in’ thing

By GEORGIA GARVEY Syndicated columnist Menopause is so hot these days. All the cool kids are doing it, a coincidence that marks the last time I will be counted as either cool or a kid. I suppose I’m not, technically, in menopause. I’m in the preemptive stages — something I have ...