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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Obama challenges Trump’s remap power grab

Friends who are frustrated by the current White House regime still ask me, "Where is Obama?" As if he might miraculously arise again in the political skies like Mighty Mouse singing, "Here I come to save the day!" Dream on, I point out. Having served two full terms, Obama has maxed out of his ...

Labeling women as toxic won’t get anyone anywhere

“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” — Henry Higgins Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay in ...