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For Juneteenth and America's 250th, recognize tragedies and triumphs
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (849+ words) by Donna Brazile, opinion contributor 06/19/26 11: 00 AM ET As we celebrate the 161st anniversary of the end of slavery today on'Juneteenth, and the 250th anniversary of our nation's founding on the Fourth of July, we need to look back honestly on the triumphs…...
Graham: "Delusional" to think Iran stronger now
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (684+ words) by Ian Swanson 06/19/26 11: 46 AM ET Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S. C.), who has bounced back and forth on the memorandum of understanding reached by the Trump administration with Iran, on Friday said it was "delusional" to think Tehran was stronger after the…...
Trump's reign of grift and graft is without parallel
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (585+ words) by Will Marshall, opinion contributor 06/19/26 09: 00 AM ET In 1958, the normally staid Eisenhower administration was rocked by scandal. White House chief of staff Sherman Adams was forced to resign for accepting a vicuna coat and a rug from a Boston textile…...
Supreme Court's narrow gun decision kindles divisions, more questions
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (786+ words) by Zach Schonfeld 06/19/26 06: 00 AM ET The Supreme Court's'gun decision on Thursday'was technically unanimous. But it was narrow.' The ruling found the government cannot criminally prosecute a man for firearm possession simply because he admitted to smoking marijuana a few times…...
My family lived through socialism. Most Democrats are frighteningly wrong about it.
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (609+ words) by Emzari Gelashvili, opinion contributor 06/17/26 09: 30 AM ET A Gallup poll conducted in August 2025 found that 66 percent of Democrats view socialism favorably. Only 42 percent of those same Democrats viewed capitalism favorably." I am not going to answer them with statistics or…...
Your financial records have no Fourth Amendment protections
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (715+ words) by Jay Rogers, opinion contributor 06/17/26 07: 30 AM ET John Adams was watching from the back of the room when James Otis Jr. argued against British writs of assistance in 1761. These were general warrants giving royal officials unlimited authority to search colonial…...
War-weary Russia is falling apart
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (279+ words) by Herman'Pirchner Jr. , opinion contributor" 06/16/26 11: 00 AM ET It is'becoming increasingly difficult for'Russians " both'Russia's elites'and'ordinary citizens " to ignore the growing disaster that has been created by more than four years of Vladimir Putin's war of choice against Ukraine.' To be sure,…...
China is quietly taking control of US medicine. We must stop helping it.
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (389+ words) by Michael Burgess, opinion contributor 06/15/26 01: 00 PM ET What would it mean if China controlled the supply chain for the medicines keeping Americans alive? That is not a hypothetical question. It is the trajectory we are on " and our own regulatory…...
To rebuild trust in maritime policy, the US must ratify the Law of the Sea
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (643+ words) by Andrew D. Thaler, opinion contributor" 06/15/26 11: 00 AM ET Alone in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, somewhere off the coast of Dominica, in the dead of night with no lights to guide me, I swam. With no motor, no radio, and…...
Trump family profiting from White House UFC fight?
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (328+ words) by Lindsey Granger, opinion contributor" 06/15/26 12: 21 PM ET The White House is known as "The People's House" because it belongs to all of us."That's"why so many Americans are struggling with what happened there this weekend." The South Lawn"wasn't…...