Opinion
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DeSantis Would Be Bad. But He Would Not Be Worse Than Trump.
To judge by several early polls, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has a decent shot of beating former President Donald…
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The Fate of the Okefenokee Swamp Is in Your Hands
NASHVILLE — I have a dim memory of being taken on a boat ride in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge…
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Even Democrats Like Me Are Fed Up With San Francisco
Few subjects please Tucker Carlson more than sticking a shiv into the city of his birth — San Francisco. Sadly,…
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From Carter to M.T.G.: What a Peach State Plummet
When Jimmy Carter was president, I was a lowly clerk at The Washington Star. I saw him mostly through the…
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America’s Increasingly Diverse Security State Is Changing Communities
If Tyre Nichols’s violent death at the hands of the Memphis police felt tragically familiar, the revelation of the race…
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The Brave Man Whom Putin Wants to Kill
If Vladimir Putin has left you despising Russians as brutes, cowards or warmongers, consider a tall, ailing man locked in…
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The Price of Risk and the Reward of Joy Out in the Wild
On Friday, Jan. 13, the actor Julian Sands set off for a hike up Mount Baldy in California’s San Gabriel…
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The Promise and Peril of a ‘Normal’ Politician
During his successful run for the presidency of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that he was fighting for…
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Robert Hébras, Last Survivor of 1944 Massacre in France, Dies at 97
Dead bodies shielded him as the Nazis killed 643 people in Oradour-sur-Glane. He spent his life keeping the memory of…
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Raymond Trollat, Who Took a Hilly Wine Region to New Heights, Dies at 91
Few knew the Northern Rhône Valley when he began growing grapes and making wine in the 1940s. By the time…