When The Rule Of Lies replaces The Rule Of Law Today in Russia, we see what happens when a country is governed by The Rule Of Lies instead of The Rule Of Law. Most Russians don’t know that their dictator, Putin, has invaded Ukraine. They think it is a limited military operation that is rooting […]
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Guest column: Despite nation’s polarization, we should all agree on government transparency
We live in contentious times. According to a 2020 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, political polarization among Americans has grown rapidly during the last 40 years. “There’s evidence that within the U.S., the two major political parties have become more homogeneous in certain ways, including ideologically and socially,” said Jesse Shapiro, a […]
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Commentary: Why Russia thinks it’s exceptional
Destiny calls upon Russia once more to face the West – or so Russians might believe. America is not alone in projecting itself as an exceptional power and indispensable force for good in the world. Russia makes the same claim. That sentiment is built upon centuries of defeating invaders, as I explore in “Russia: The […]
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Commentary: Schools will stop serving free lunch to all students
A pandemic solution left out of a new federal spending package
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Carl Golden: Trump, the insurrection and Nixon’s pardon
Nearly 48 years ago, President Gerald Ford granted a “full, free and absolute pardon to Richard Nixon,” shielding the former president from prosecution for conspiring to cover up the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in 1972. According to the document signed by Ford, the pardon covered “all offenses […]
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John Micek: With Ukraine war, GOP finds religon on democracy
Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.), who once advised President Donald Trump’s White House on undermining the 2020 election results, and who was a target of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, has now found a democracy worth defending. It’s in Kyiv. Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Perry denounced […]
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Women’s basketball: Albany defeats UMaine, 56-47, in America East title game
The Great Danes earn the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament after getting off to a fast start against the Black Bears.
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David Treadwell: Honoring deceased veterans with flags
Memorial Days in Parkersburg, West Virginia in the mid-1950s were a big deal for me. I was in the Boy Scouts, and our troop always marched in the annual Memorial Day Parade, along with veterans, members of civic organizations and assorted town poohbahs. We were led by the majestic Big Red Marching Band, the Parkersburg […]
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Commentary: Ukraine’s Twitter account is a national version of real-time trauma processing
TikToks of cats in cardboard tanks. Flirty comments on Instagram accounts dedicated to Vladmir Putin, begging him to stop Russia’s attacks on Ukraine. Memes bemoaning what it’s like to live during a pandemic and war. Memes, cats and TikToks are central features of contemporary internet culture. And sometimes, internet culture is all three at the […]
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Gordon Weil: Fighting for Ukraine but avoiding war
American consumer becomes today’s soldier.
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