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Cathy Young

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Critique shows NPR needs balance

Has National Public Radio become too left-wing and mired in progressive dogma, alienating many American listeners? That’s the charge made in a...

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Trump shifts to find safe ground on abortion

With abortion rights emerging as a major issue in November's presidential election, Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, is scrambling to carve...

12.04.2024 3

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Oklahoma teen death a cautionary tale

In February, after the death of Oklahoma high schooler Nex Benedict following a confrontation in the school restroom became a national story, I wrote...

05.04.2024 4

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Moscow attack undermines Putin's image

In some ways, last week’s horrific attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in a Moscow suburb, apparently by Islamist extremists, was...

29.03.2024 1

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Ambiguous words, unambiguous meaning

Donald Trump said last weekend at an Ohio rally, “ … if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath …” Initial reports about what the...

22.03.2024 4

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Biden is walking a tight line on Israel

As election-year politics heat up in the United States, the question of American support for Israel has become the focus of dissension, and President...

15.03.2024 5

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Progressives err on Hamas rape denial​​​​​​​

This week, a team of United Nations experts that visited Israel last month to investigate claims of sexual violence during the Oct. 7 Hamas raids said...

08.03.2024 6

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Rushed judgment in Oklahoma teen death

Last week, a horrific story appeared in the media and made the rounds: Nex Benedict, an Oklahoma teen who was a biological female but identified as...

01.03.2024 6

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Will Navalny's death spark resistance?

Almost exactly two years after Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine, the Russian autocrat shocked the world with his latest crime: the...

23.02.2024 3

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Lesson on the dangers of contrarianism

The April 20, 2021 conviction of Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin in the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black man whose death...

16.02.2024 2

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Carlson-Putin: a piece of propaganda

09.02.2024 3

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Mariupol film exposes savagery of war

02.02.2024 3

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Nikki Haley should stay in the GOP race

Donald Trump’s comfortable victory in New Hampshire, the state where GOP primary voters are seen as most sympathetic to sole remaining challenger...

26.01.2024 10

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Weighing toll of civilian deaths in Gaza

More than three months after the Hamas terror attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s war in Gaza, criticism of Israel’s conduct in this war...

19.01.2024 3

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Christie's exit a sad comment on GOP

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to get out of the presidential race on Wednesday probably won’t affect the outcome of the GOP...

12.01.2024 3

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Gay's ouster signals larger problem of integrity

The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay amid charges of plagiarism — and of failing to properly respond to antisemitism on the school’s...

05.01.2024 4

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As 2023 sunsets, war and the rise of extremism imperil freedom

As  2023 lumbers to a close, causes for alarm about the future of freedom are all around us: in Ukraine, in the Middle East, in Europe, even in the...

22.12.2023 5

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Trump might not become a dictator

In 2016, when the once-preposterous idea of President Donald Trump looked increasingly possible, many commentators — not only on the left, but on...

15.12.2023 4

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Kissinger's legacy of moral compromises

There is a certain symbolism in the fact that Henry Kissinger, the man whose career helped shape so many events in the 20th century, lived to be...

11.12.2023 5

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GOP should reconsider on Ukraine aid

Russian television propagandists who rarely have a good word for Americans rejoiced and applauded Republicans in the House and Senate on Wednesday....

11.12.2023 7

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The Best of Reason: Will Russia Ever Be Free?

Freedom Cathy Young | 12.5.2023 12:00 PM This week's featured article is "Will Russia Ever Be Free?" by Cathy Young. ...

05.12.2023 3

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Will Russia Ever Be Free?

Freedom Cathy Young | From the December 2023 issue Eager though we all are to learn how the Ukraine war ends for...

19.11.2023 5

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On the wrong path of identity politics

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, there has been a growing awareness in the United States of serious problems with a far-left progressivism...

17.11.2023 2

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Charges of antisemitism require facts

The surge in antisemitic rhetoric that has accompanied the intensification of hostilities in the Middle East in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel...

10.11.2023 3

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Stalemate in Ukraine is a critical moment

Critics of American and Western support for Ukraine in its defensive war against the Russian invasion have long argued that the war has reached a...

03.11.2023 3

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Israel, Gaza, and the boundaries of bias

The crisis in Israel and Gaza has revived the perennial controversy about when criticism of Israel becomes antisemitism — and when the backlash...

27.10.2023 4

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Hard free speech lessons on campus

Shortly after the horrific Hamas attacks that killed some 1,300 Israelis, most of them civilians, some 30 progressive groups at Harvard University...

20.10.2023 3

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Hamas attack exposes far left and right

There is always a danger in using a foreign crisis, particularly one as horrific as the war against Israel launched by the Hamas terror group over the...

13.10.2023 5

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Toxic culture on right or left is wrong

The most recent clash in the ongoing culture war over sex, gender, and transgender identities has to do with a canceled panel at the joint meeting of...

06.10.2023 3

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Ukraine deserves continued support

The wrangling over a possible federal government shutdown has also become a partisan squabble over aid to Ukraine. The stopgap spending deal reached...

29.09.2023 3

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Book bans are complicated and growing

Stories of book bans and censures in schools keep multiplying. In just the past few days, there have been reports of a teacher in South Carolina being...

25.09.2023 3

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Republicans adopt covidiocy platform

On Wednesday, the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis began advising people under 65 against getting the new COVID-19 booster shots from...

15.09.2023 2

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X marks antisemitic spot under Musk

The latest chapter in Elon Musk’s rocky tenure as head of Twitter — now “X” — is an antisemitism scandal. In the past several days, Musk...

08.09.2023 5

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