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Tyranny Editor: We are seeing the consequences of a lawless federal government play out before our eyes. An attack on Venezuela, which turns out to be not “regime change”, but only dictator change, has been revealed to be a clumsy effort to benefit multinational oil companies, not Venezuelan (or US) citizens. The long-term strategy for this operation seems even more vague than were the plans for invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. We will be paying for those follies for decades, most especially in the health of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who served in those wars. We all ...

Froma Harrop

Columns

Surely, I have plenty of company in wanting to jump off the Donald Trump distraction express. Rage is its fuel. A weekend isn't short enough to contain the demands on attention. Just this last two-day break encountered: The cinematic ICE raids in Minneapolis. Threats against Exxon for its ...

Cal Thomas

Columns

"For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are." - C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew Let's start with the shooting of Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent while attempting to drive away from the scene ...

Jeff Robbins

Columns

On the one hand, thank goodness there are videos. But on the other, America's current leaders couldn't care less what the videos show. They are prepared to say anything at all with a straight face, and there remain millions of Americans happy to believe what these leaders tell them rather ...

Daniel McCarthy

Columns

Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting — then years of elevated criminal violence — should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading. Like the killing of George ...

Holding space for good: Bonnie Jean Feldkamp

Columns

Louisville Urban League President Lyndon Pryor said something at the organization's annual Impact Luncheon last month that has been stuck on replay in my head ever since. I'm paraphrasing here, but he told the crowd, "If you're wondering what you would do in the face of injustice, you're doing ...