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Man doubts self after being cheated on

DEAR ABBY: I have been in two relationships. The first was with a girl a couple of years older than I am. We were together for several years before she was unfaithful and dumped me. I wa...

DATE: Aug 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Contemplating the meaning of monuments

When I read about the white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, violently opposing the city’s plan to remove the Robert E. Lee statue, it brought me back 30 years when I lived in Rich...

DATE: Aug 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: View from the Center

Littwin: Trump crosses yet another line

The temptation is to say that a line was crossed on Saturday in America. But I can’t bring myself to do it. Maybe the most depressing thing about the death and chaos in Charlottes...

DATE: Aug 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Pregnant girlfriend wants marriage

DEAR ABBY: I have been with my boyfriend for three years. I am pregnant with twins, and we already have a son together. His daughter lives with us as well. With this pregnanc...

DATE: Aug 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

We’ve run away from home to find ourselves again

ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, NORTHWEST OF TRUCKEE, Calif. – This will make me sound grouchy and misanthropic, but I sometimes wonder if what makes America great isn’t so much its people as it...

DATE: Aug 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Mother continues affair with married man

DEAR ABBY: My mother is dating a married man, not for the first time. I love her, but I don’t think what she’s doing is right. This affair has been going on for years. I trie...

DATE: Aug 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

To every thing, a season?

There are things in this world that best ought not be hurried. Many of them lie within the purview of women – birth, the rising of bread, a holy death among them. Of course, any o...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Krugman: At heart, Donald Trump is not a real American

Remember back in 2008, when Sarah Palin used to talk about the “real America?” She meant rural and small-town residents — white residents, it went without saying — who supposedly embodied th...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Keillor: We need truth tellers in this ‘Age of Sensitivity’

My wife has gone East for a couple weeks and now there is nobody to say, “You’re not wearing that tie with that shirt, are you?” Nobody to point discreetly at her left nostril and hand me a ...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Parents disapprove of interracial couple

DEAR ABBY: I am in an interracial relationship with a guy whose parents don’t support us because I am of a different race and culture. Our countries of origin were antagonistic in the pa...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Trump needs a trip to the White House library

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump doesn’t spare much time for reading. “I never have,” he explains. “I’m always busy doing a lot.” But what he is now busy doing is managing a global crisi...

DATE: Aug 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Husband quits smoking, keeps drinking

DEAR ABBY: I am married to a great guy. We’ve been together 27 years, so I know him well. He recently stopped smoking after 30 years of nicotine addiction. He did it cold turkey, and he’...

DATE: Aug 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby