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Schultheis: Saudi Arabia - wagging the dog

Mark Twain or Stephen Colbert at their most ingenious couldn’t conceive of a wackier scenario than President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia. Anointing the Saudi royal...

West: Inaccurate statistics skew views on rape

The Coroners Report, “Test case shows how viewpoints about a death can differ” (Herald, June 2), presents a misinformed perspective of the hypothetical death of a woman because of its focus ...

Krauthammer: Coherent American strategy needed in Syria

WASHINGTON – The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter-bomber. Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria. Russia threatens to attack coalition aircraft west of the Euphrates. What is going on? ...

Kasich and Hickenlooper: A two-party approach to health care

The fate of America’s health care system, the focus of our nation’s most important – and most heavily politicized – public policy debate is in the hands of the Senate, where senators get the...

Bruni: For more and more Americans, I’m okay and you’re evil

In denouncing the hatred that brought bloodshed to a baseball diamond in Alexandria, Virginia, some people went ahead and spread more of it. Rush Limbaugh, take a bow. You called the shooter...

Brooks: Let’s not get carried away

I was the op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal at the peak of the Whitewater scandal. We ran a series of investigative pieces “raising serious questions” (as we say in the scandal busines...

Cohen: Social norms fraying in America

The moment seemed too surreal to believe. On May 24, on the eve of a special election to fill Montana’s only U.S. House seat, GOP nominee Greg Gianforte was being pressed by a rep...

Sullivan: Is Trump coverage negative? That’s the wrong question

The New York Daily News front page on Friday morning screamed “LIAR” in huge type over a photo of President Donald Trump. USA Today’s banner headline seconded the motion: “Comey c...

Craig: We must stop treating each other like the enemy

As we venture deeper into the new realities of a Donald Trump presidency, many people across this great country are still feeling anger and resentment toward one another in the wake of a ver...

Thompson: Can Zinke shrink Bears Ears?

Following six weeks of intense nationwide debate, and after more than 150,000 public comments, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on June 12 released his interim report on the Trump administratio...

Shocking reminder that the toxic tone must change

WASHINGTON — There was an eerie silence in the House chamber when the gavel fell to open Wednesday morning’s session. This was supposed to be the time for “morning-hour” speeches,...

Bruni: The mortification of Jeff Sessions

The appearance of Jeff Sessions before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday didn’t bring us much closer to understanding what did or didn’t happen between Donald Trump and the Russia...