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Two blows in one night to democracy

How social is social media?Elon Musk, TwitterĢƵ new owner, gives a clear answer to that question. Musk made the platform – a public square – his own boiling cauldron of hate just in time for Halloween.Double blows to American democracy occurred overnight, within hours of each other. It ...

Putin’s political philosophy self-serving, hypocritical

Vladimir Putin is a murderer and tyrant. HeĢƵ also a hypocrite.“It is no coincidence that the West claims that it is its culture and worldview that should be universal,” Putin explained last week at a pro-Putin Moscow think tank, the Valdai Discussion Club. His remarks echoed previous ...

Biden, Harris should bow out of 2024 election

WASHINGTON – During this autumnĢƵ avalanche of political news, an enormous boulder bounced by, barely noticed. It demonstrated why Joe Biden should not seek another term. Democrats should promptly face that fact, and this one: An Everest of evidence shows that Vice President Kamala Harris ...

Why we won’t have results on election night

Next Tuesday, millions of Pennsylvanians will go to the polls to cast their vote in the midterm election. In addition, the more than 1.3 million Pennsylvanians who applied to vote by mail-in or absentee ballot must return their ballots to their county election office by 8 p.m. that night.The ...

The witch trials were really not funny

Tourism in Salem is wild with 100,000 visitors descending on this historic Massachusetts town on any given day. Traffic is gridlocked, and there are virtually no parking spaces left. The mayor told visitors to go to satellite parking lots and take shuttle buses downtown. Then the satellite lots ...