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Opinion | We can’t unmake nuclear weapons. But we can decide never to use them.

Comment on this storyCommentIn centuries to come, our descendants will wonder why we chose to live so long with the urgent threat of...

Lawmakers Consider More Security for Offices Following Connolly Staff Attack

The attack on two congressional aides this week at the Fairfax, Va., office of Representative Gerald E. Connolly has prompted members of Congress...

Opinion | U.S.-China talks provided a glimmer of hope

After reading so much Biden-bashing, I found it truly refreshing to read David Ignatius’s May 15 op-ed, “In Vienna, the U.S.-China relationship shows...

Opinion | Libraries should celebrate reading

Reading Karen MacPherson’s May 14 Book World essay, “Go ahead, make some noise: Libraries should be loud,” reminded me of a summer reading...

Opinion | Florida’s legislature learns a lesson on restricting rights

The May 13 news article “Conservative media hands DeSantis a rare failure on press rights” illustrated a fact many folks seem to forget:...

Opinion | Tommy Tuberville’s remarks on the military were disgraceful

Having attended way too many repatriations of service members and watching family and friends be overcome with grief, I cannot fathom how a...

Opinion | The United States of the NRA: Armed and afraid

The "originalists” in our government, at all levels, have succumbed to the interpretation of the Second Amendment that ignores the first words of...

Opinion | People wouldn’t be kicked off Medicaid if we had Medicare-for-all

This week, Medicare-for-all legislation was introduced in the House and Senate. These bills would guarantee that every American from birth to death would...

Opinion | The West fiddles as Haiti unravels

Comment on this storyCommentNearly 30 years ago, while serving in the Senate, Joe Biden told an interviewer that “if Haiti just quietly sunk...

Pentagon Says Accounting Mistake Frees Up $3 Billion More for Ukraine

The Pentagon has significantly reduced its estimate of the value of weapons it has sent to Ukraine amid intensifying pressure to explain how...

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