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Guest Commentator
To pretend otherwise is engaging in willful ignorance and denial.
Upon hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s six conservative justices had callously dismantled to the last vestiges the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), I, like…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
A project delayed, a program underfunded, a priority shifted. The fight over maps is, at its core, a fight over whether under-investment will persist.
Elections aren’t supposed to stop midstream, but in Louisiana, they did. After the Supreme Court stepped into the state’s redistricting fight, Governor Jeff Landry halted congressional…
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Editorial Board
When interest rates rise, credit becomes more expensive, home ownership moves further out of reach, and small businesses delay expansion or close altogether.
How Federal Reserve policy lands hardest on those at the margins By May 15, the Federal Reserve will likely have a new chair. That transition is…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Mr. Carlson routinely misled more than 3.5 million viewers on his Fox News show.
While spending decades promoting and trumpeting blatant falsehoods about immigrants, declaring Black people as violent criminals and feminists as sadistic vixens, and heavily assisting in helping…
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Editorial Board
There are still people who pray before the day begins, give thanks before they eat, and show up for others not because it is convenient, but because it is right.
I was raised Catholic. Not casually Catholic. My mother was the kind of Catholic who went to Mass every day. Faith was not something she talked…
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Guest Commentator
Research indicates that Catholic voters are the United States' largest group of religious swing voters.
President Donald Trump’s feud with Pope Leo XIV has only become more acerbic since the commander-in-chief posted an AI-generated image of himself last week. The image…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
These policies reach far beyond bathrooms - they shape whether transgender people can safely participate in everyday life.
Across the country, a wave of anti-transgender legislation is reshaping access to public space. As of April, 44 bathroom-related bills are under consideration, with six already…
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Editorial Board
The work that sustains human life - caring for children, tending to the sick, supporting the elderly - is treated as low-value labor. Meanwhile, sectors far removed from those everyday needs capture extraordinary wealth.
People keep talking about the future of work as if it is something waiting just around the corner - robots taking jobs, artificial intelligence transforming industries,…
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Guest Commentator
The abuse went on for several years of their childhood.
Weeks later, more than a few people on the political, social, and cultural left are still reeling from the recent disturbing allegations against Cesar Chavez: namely,…
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Cover Story
Guest Commentator
The more she worked to diminish the Epstein controversy, the more public interest grew.
On April 2, Pam Bondi became the latest Trump official to bite the political dust, so to speak. Admittedly, such news was hardly surprising. Those deeply…
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