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Jamie Stiehm

Warning: this column is a dark path to a gaudy "Great Gatsby" party while children go hungry. We know the damage cellphones cause to kids and teenagers in learning and mental health epidemics of anxiety and depression. The research results are in. Private and public schools are banning them. ...

Tim Graham

The CBS News program "Sunday Morning" has been hailed as one of the "crown jewels" of the network — which means it's larded with liberal bias. Last year, it was a conveyor belt of Democrats. They aired puffball interviews with Pete Buttigieg, Doug Emhoff, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Ketanji ...

Froma Harrop

The big headlines about job losses tend to focus on the big employers. Layoffs at UPS, 48,000 -- at Intel, 24,000. Amazon is cutting up to 30,000 workers, and Target, 1,800. These pink slips are being dropped largely on white-collar positions. The thinking is that artificial intelligence will ...

Victor Joecks

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is both radical and unqualified to be president. But she still has a clear path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination. On Tuesday, Socialist Zohran Mamdani was expected to become the next mayor of New York City. He wants a rent freeze, city-owned ...

Letter to the editor

Listening Editor: Many years ago, I had a falling-out with a church friend over something in an organization to which we belonged. All summer I had been listening to others in the organization who were reinforcing my position, so I was very certain that my opinion was the right one. On a Sunday morning, our minister preached on the importance of reconciliation with our neighbors. After the service, I approached my friend and suggested we talk, and we agreed to take a walk together that afternoon. At lunch, when I told my husband that I would give this friend a piece of my mind, he ...

Michael Barone

Who said this? "If you don't have any borders, you don't have a nation." The speaker went on, "Trump did a better job. I don't like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain't that hard to do. Biden didn't do it." It was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in characteristic candor. If, as ...