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54+ min ago   (618+ words) Bad things can happen when racial disparities are taken as de facto proof of systemic racism. If the Clark County School District doesn’t reject this flawed premise, students may find that out the hard way — again. The district recently released…...

52+ min ago   (142+ words) Economic malaise and a war? The Iran war is now more than six months old. I also hear that our president doesn’t care if 99 percent of us are feeling an economic pinch. So much for Donald Trump’s campaign promises and…...

53+ min ago   (217+ words) The return of the handwritten note. I read the opinion piece by syndicated columnist Tom Purcell about handwritten letters (Sept. 3 Review-Journal, “The handwritten letter makes a comeback”). Over the past several months, I’ve discovered that trying to increase my customer…...

55+ min ago   (330+ words) Trump has used increased tariffs to incentivize a surge in foreign investment commitments of over 20 trillion dollars flowing into the United States. Instead of subsidizing other countries by paying their tariffs, companies and countries are building factories here to avoid…...

55+ min ago   (903+ words) This 25th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack ever on American soil may be as good an occasion as any to pay a moment’s attention to the subject of patriotism. As the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre correctly noted, patriotism, first and…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago   (154+ words) Two wars have cut France off from supplies of natural gas. First the Ukraine War shutting off the flow of Russian gas in 2022 now Middle East gas supplies disrupted by the Iran War. On October 1st the price of natural gas…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (421+ words) Times Leader Editorial Board A bicycle lane along Market Street in Philadelphia, on June 4, 2018. President Donald Trump’s attack on bike lane funding would make a lot more sense if he did two things: Insist it was only about saving federal…...

8+ hour, 56+ min ago   (503+ words) Charleston and its surrounding counties are experiencing some of the fastest growth in the nation, and many of us have felt that squeeze for some time. Certainly one of the most important questions residents are asking this year is how…...

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13+ hour, 56+ min ago   (993+ words) With no reactors under construction, the restarts offer the most immediate options to grow nuclear power in the U.S. Opposition to the restarts, and nuclear power in general continues, but it’s lost the clout it once had to block and delay…...