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We forget the gratitude we need. This Thanksgiving, let's find it

Thanksgiving was created to teach a nation that gratitude in both the easy and hard times shapes the next generation, and that is exactly the...

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Benny Berlin 

A wrecking ball is coming for America’s nursing workforce. Stop it

Every day since November 2024, I’ve woken up wondering where the wrecking ball will strike next. In a nation already buckling under humanitarian...

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Michele Lucille Lopez 

Judaism teaches us to cherish life and to meet suffering with mercy

As rabbis, we come to this conversation out of love — love for our communities, our families and the sacred gift of life itself. And we come with a...

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Jonathan Blake And Rachel Timoner 

We can learn from Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation

Editor's note: At the height of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving proclamation to encourage Americans “in every part...

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Usa Today Network Northeast Group Editorial Board

Civilian responders are on the front line. What can we learn?

When the heavy rainfall hit Texas in July 2025, it turned the Guadalupe River into a monster. Within hours, streets were rivers, homes were islands...

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Dubi Weissenstern 

NY's AI laws won’t work. We need a national framework.

After California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed his state’s AI transparency bill into law several New York policymakers urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to do the...

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Logan Kolas

A growing New York requires an all-of-the-above on energy generation

New York is emerging as a leader in some of the world’s most important growth industries, including semiconductors, microelectronics manufacturing,...

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Bob Duffy

How Springsteen led me to reflect on life's most important things

I watched "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" and was moved by its ending. A son understands his father's errors and abusive ways and, from...

26.11.2025 2

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Rodney B. Dieser 

SNAP chaos hurts ordinary New Yorkers. These good people stepped up

The little boy was so hungry, he pretended he was sick just to go to the school nurse’s office to eat the emergency supply of crackers. When the...

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Steve Israel