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politics protest

The history of moral panics: From the Salem Witch Hunt to today’s trans panic

May 26, 2023 4:34 pm

cancel

This cancel culture thing is proof that we’ve all lost our damn minds

May 24, 2023 6:41 pm

Long live Big Red: Fifty years since a horse racing legend won the Triple Crown

Rebecca Barnabi

May 23, 2023 4:17 pm

veteran uniform

Too many veterans lose the battle with drug addiction: Early intervention is critical

Veronica Raussin

May 18, 2023 8:45 am

american flag

We can transcend our limits, even when doing so means breaking the law

Robert C. Koehler

May 18, 2023 8:37 am

us politics congress

Business as usual: Shutdown or not, the police state will continue to flourish

May 17, 2023 8:52 am

congress money

Debt-ceiling fight: Republicans are going to win, because they don’t care if we all lose

May 16, 2023 5:51 pm

fascism

Josh Hawley’s new book on manhood is wrong on everything, everywhere, all at once

May 15, 2023 10:45 am

nuclear war

Humanity, divided into ‘us’ and ‘them,’ is threatening itself with suicide

Robert C. Koehler

May 15, 2023 10:42 am

earth

It’s a brave, new multi-polar world: The U.S. is at risk of becoming isolated in it

May 15, 2023 10:39 am

school

The teachers who helped make me who I am deserve more than just, thanks

May 11, 2023 11:03 am

child labor

It’s time to step up to fight the exploitation of migrant child laborers

May 11, 2023 9:46 am

constitution

Danger within: The government is turning America into a Constitution-free zone

May 11, 2023 9:37 am

guns

If you take guns out of the story, so many stories have different outcomes

May 11, 2023 9:35 am

ben cline

ClineWatch: Will Ben Cline dishonor America’s heroes as Team Trump does?

May 9, 2023 4:51 pm

elon musk twitter

Pandering Twit Elon Musk to inactive Twitter accounts: Drop dead

May 8, 2023 4:01 pm

ben cline

Ben Cline can’t even offer ‘thoughts and prayers’ after latest American mass shooting

May 7, 2023 11:04 am

earth

War for profit: A short history that will not end up for the profiteers

May 7, 2023 10:11 am

korea

Do the ominous nuclear warnings to North Korea make South Korea safer?

May 6, 2023 5:52 pm

elon musk twitter

Why is Elon Musk so blasé about the prospect of the world running out of water?

May 5, 2023 10:36 am

joe biden

Mr. President, the choice is yours: Do whatever is necessary to resolve the debt limit crisis

May 5, 2023 10:08 am

nuclear war

The basic premise of war is kill the bad guys: How does this make us secure?

Robert C. Koehler

May 5, 2023 10:04 am

nurse doctor medical health

CMS denying important treatment: Alzheimer’s patients, and their families ,deserve better

May 4, 2023 2:35 pm

ben cline

Cline wants Biden to ‘come to the table’ on debt ceiling: Did he demand the same of Trump?

May 3, 2023 10:27 am

fascism

Disarm the IRS, de-militarize the bureaucracy, dismantle the standing army

May 3, 2023 10:15 am

news media

Mailbag: A throwback to the time when we first learned AFP had a wider reach

May 1, 2023 10:05 am

gun violence

Shoot first, ask questions later, now’s not the time for change, thoughts and prayers

Tom H. Hastings

April 30, 2023 10:12 am

staunton va

Staunton leaders vote 4-3 to back 89-cent tax rate: The political winds have shifted

April 28, 2023 10:58 am

supreme court

Mailbag: Readers make call for Supreme Court checks and balances, ethics reform

April 28, 2023 10:10 am

child teen abuse

Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Centering on the needs of survivors

Sylvia Ghazarian

April 27, 2023 10:19 am

constitution

The war on free speech is really a war on the right to criticize the government

April 27, 2023 10:10 am