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Asad Zaman
November 13, 2020
Al Lindell, head election judge, hands a voting sticker to a voter from behind a plexiglass barrier as voters casts their ballots on Election Day, Tue

Voters delivered a mandate to share the wealth

Now, legislators must create a caring economy.
Chris Reed, San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS)
November 13, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 5, 2020 in Washi

Who is Trumpisim's heir apparent?

President Tucker Carlson, anyone?
Jonathan Zimmerman, Dallas Morning News (TNS)
November 13, 2020
An audience reacts as President-elect Joe Biden speaks after winning the presidential election, Wilmington, Del., Nov. 7, 2020. As he addressed the na

Turning down the harsh rhetoric means us, too, liberals

We need to be able to listen to each other again.
Evan Odegard
November 13, 2020
The Liberty Memorial Tower and the main courtyard at the National World War I Museum and Memorial, in Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 20, 2018. Visits here ar

We mustn't repeat the wrongs my ancestors suffered

There's no place for xenophobia here, and it's a lesson we should have learned 100 years ago.
November 12, 2020

Attack on Georgia's secretary of state marked a new low

Sens. Loeffler and Perdue unfairly went after fellow Republican.
Uwe Stuecher
November 12, 2020
An American lieutenant looks out over the German city of Leipzig from an observation platform on the spire of the cathedral. All buildings within rang

The America that liberated me has the strength to overcome

America, to me, was something decent, generous and good; something you could trust. I know it still can be.
Scott Gillespie
November 12, 2020
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, pauses as he speaks during a news conference on legal challenges to vote cou

Trump's last stand: Please make it stop

He took advantage of a divided nation in 2016, and now he's ensuring that divisions grow wider and that more norms are shattered.
Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
November 12, 2020
Activists gather in John Marshall Park for the Global Climate Strike protests on Sept. 20, 2019 in Washington, United States. President Trump on Monda

As president, Biden can combat climate change single-handedly

And he'll probably have to.
Harry Litman, Los Angeles Times (TNS)
November 12, 2020
President Donald Trump talks with advisors in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday. Trump earlier attended a National Veterans Day Observan

Can Trump pardon himself?

Probably not, but we'll see what happens.
Al Franken
November 11, 2020
A Trump supporter, at left, demonstrating against the presidential election results, argues with a counter protestor at the State Capitol in Lansing,

Bring Americans together? Good luck with that!

Americans are divided into two completely different information universes. And that's a problem.
Max Rymer
November 11, 2020
People carry signs during a "Defund the Police" march from King County Youth Jail to City Hall in Seattle, Washington on August 5, 2020. (Jason Redmon

For Democrats, the cost of bringing down Trump was steep

Democrats didn't flip a single state Legislature, while Republicans flipped several, and some governorships.
November 11, 2020

GSA administrator is stalling the Biden transition

Trump scares Republican leaders, and norms are being broken.
Michael Golden, Chicago Tribune (TNS)
November 11, 2020
A "I'm a Georgia Voter sticker is seen on a fence as the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference on Wednesday, N

To sweep Georgia Senate races, Democrats must rally Black voters ... again

If they win, they'll know who to thank.
Noah Feldman, Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
November 11, 2020
A new study suggests young adults with cancer who are protected under the ACA's dependent coverage provision were more likely to remain on private ins

Supreme Court to Dems: Relax, Obamacare is going to be fine

The GOP's last chance to gut the ACA just died.
Steve Morse
November 10, 2020
Enbridge Energy has already built a 14-mile stretch of Line 3 from the Minnesota line to its terminal in Superior, Wis., but the rest of the project f

The state has ample reason, and authority, to block this harmful pipeline

If approved, leaders will have ignored the law and the science.
November 10, 2020

Public needs more answers in the Kyle Rittenhouse case

His treatment by Kenosha police deserves more scrutiny.
Amy Koch
November 10, 2020
FILE - In this June 29, 2018 file photo, pipeline used to carry crude oil is shown at the Superior terminal of Enbridge Energy in Superior, Wis. An up

The approval of Enbridge Line 3 should be a no-brainer

Canada, North Dakota and Wisconsin approved their sections years ago.
Addison Scufsa
November 10, 2020
A supporter of President-elect Joe Biden holds up his mobile phone to display the electoral college map outside the Philadelphia Convention Center aft

One clear result of the 2020 election: At last, let's abolish the Electoral College

The president represents all Americans, so the vote of every American should count.
Opinion
November 10, 2020
FILE -- Joe Biden, then a Democratic presidential candidate, in South Charleston, S.C., Feb. 26, 2020. "Largely to draw a contrast with Trump, Biden r

The radical humility of Joe Biden

We, not he, are the focus of the story.
November 9, 2020

What a Kamala Harris vice presidency means for America

Electoral politics have been changed forever, and that's worth celebrating.

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