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Opinion

Daniel McCarthy

Columns

President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them. The president signed the flurry of executive orders he issued the day he returned to office with a Sharpie. He's used them for years, finding them more reliable than fancier ...

Clarence Page

Columns

When President Donald Trump dropped the bizarre suggestion last week that the military should use American cities as "training grounds" to fight what he called "an enemy within," it sounded almost like old news. After all, Trump has talked like this for years. "Don't take him literally," some ...

Georgia Garvey

Columns

The secretary of defense opens his laptop late at night on Sept. 29. He logs on to his favorite AI chatbot. It greets him. Hi, Pete. What can I do for you tonight? Pete? I thought I asked you to call me Major Tough Guy. You're absolutely right. You did. Thanks for setting me straight, ...

Letter to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: Republicans, including our representative Jack Bergman, have shut down the Federal Government because they want to strip healthcare away from middle and working-class Americans including Yoopers so they can give more tax cuts to the wealthy. Democrats instead are demanding an ...

Michael Barone

Columns

Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" ...

Tim Graham

Columns

If the national media can be counted on to spin anything dramatically toward the Democrats, it's a government shutdown. They feel passionately that the Democrats are the Party of Government, and the Republicans are the Haters of Government, so who naturally favors shutting it all down? Even ...