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Barabak: Biden could cost Dems control

July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns

As if Democrats don’t have enough to keep them up nights, here’s something beyond frightful visions of a Trump victory: a Republican trifecta in Washington. Read story

Wilkinson: Supreme Court has stacked the deck for MAGA

July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns

It’s wrong to view the Supreme Court’s ruling in the aptly titled Trump v. United States, its Constitution-torching invitation to authoritarian rule, as a decision without precedent. It’s just that Supreme Court precedents don’t necessarily roll quite like they used to. Read story

Local View: Safe, accurate elections

July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Recently, a proposed ballot initiative made the erroneous statement that the League of Women Voters had expressed concern about election security in Clark County. We weren’t consulted by the author of the measure, and we do not agree with its premise that county elections procedures are flawed. Read story

Abcarian: Choice to replace Biden obvious

July 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns

President Joe Biden’s letter to Democrats in Congress on Monday was everything his debate performance should have been: a forceful, articulate defense of what he has achieved as president and a warning about the existential threat to our democracy posed by Donald Trump. Read story

Hannah: Europe, NATO can’t help U.S. counter China

July 11, 2024, 6:01am Columns

At a recent news conference, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken stood shoulder to shoulder with NATO’s secretary general to deliver a sweeping vision. Read story

Westneat: Loneliness of the woman voter

July 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns

In the fire hose of news last week, the airlifts are an image that needs more attention. Read story

Harrop: Thou shalt not misuse the Ten Commandments

July 9, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Walking through Roger Williams Park in Providence, R.I., I came upon a moss-covered monolith listing the Ten Commandments. This was some time ago, but knowing the objections then being made to placing religious artifacts in public places, I thought, “This stone won’t be here for long.” Read story

Other Papers Say: Congress, write clearer laws

July 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Among the many rulings the Supreme Court handed down this term, a decision on so-called Chevron deference could prove especially consequential. The question at issue was whether the courts or government agencies should determine the meaning of ambiguous laws. The new ruling unsettles a 40-year-old understanding by shifting some of… Read story

Westneat: Aging a fact, not a scandal

July 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns

‘It’s the nouns that go first.” Read story

Estrich: Court crowns a king

July 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns

‘With fear for our democracy,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor concludes in her brilliant dissent in Trump v. United States, “I dissent.” Read story