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OP-ED: How the grim Branch Davidian anniversary echoes

WASHINGTON — The Branch Davidians were founded in 1955, an offshoot of an offshoot of Seventh-day Adventists, with a Texas home named after Mount Carmel, which in Israel overlooks the plain known as Armageddon. Thirty years ago this month, America was collectively nearing the horrific April ...

OP-ED: Maybe, just maybe, this is rock bottom for embarrassing U.S. politics

WASHINGTON - “Wherever I have gone in this country,” said Kansas Gov. Alf Landon, the Republicans’ 1936 presidential nominee, “I have found Americans.” Time was, the nation rejected what it now needs: banal politics. TodayĢƵ embarrassments — Donald Trump, his prosecutorial ...

Chicago voters must choose further decline or a remedy for an ailing city

WASHINGTON — Chicago, a name said to derive from a Native American word meaning wild onion, has pungent politics. The mayoralty campaign that culminates Tuesday has featured, in Brandon Johnson, a comprehensively, almost exotically, inapt candidate. He was runner-up in FebruaryĢƵ ...

OP-ED: Another revered high school sacrifices excellence on the altar of DEI

PHILADELPHIA - In September 2010, President Barack Obama came here to the nationally acclaimed and locally revered Masterman School, one of this cityĢƵ five selective magnet schools. He called the “culture of excellence that you promote at Masterman” an example “that I hope communities ...

OP-ED: With Silicon Valley Bank rescue, welcome to capitalism without risk

WASHINGTON - In 1994, President ClintonĢƵ certitudes included these: By 2000, AmericaĢƵ high school graduation rate would be 90 percent (it is still not) and students would be among the worldĢƵ best in math and science (they are not). Such blithe thinking frequently caused Sen. Daniel ...