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Conservatives are lying to themselves. Trump doesn't care about our beliefs.

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Dace Potas 

Remember what MLK Jr. demanded, not just the comfort of his words

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Imari K. Paris Jeffries 

Vance says White people can stop apologizing. Did they ever start?

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Amelia Robinson 

We asked what you thought of Trump's first year back. Read the responses.

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My finances are better under Trump. Let him do his job.

I voted for exactly what President Donald Trump is doing. I just wish the extremist judges would get out of the way and let the executive do his...

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College athletes deserve compensation. We're handling NIL rule wrong.

As the college football season ends with the Jan. 19 championship game, there's lingering uncertainty about the future of all college sports in the...

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Douglas Scott 

Trump keeps saying the quiet part out loud. Why don't we believe him?

So President Donald Trump has again floated the idea of canceling the 2026 midterm elections, telling Reuters on Jan. 14 that “when you think of...

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Rex Huppke

Trump needs to leave his gold tower and be president for all

I was worried when Donald Trump was reelected president because he told us what he was going to do to people who had tried to hold him accountable...

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I'm a former gang member. Here's the real reason crime is down.

I lived with violence at an early age. A former Grape Street Crip, I lost 13 friends to Los Angeles’ gang war in 1989 alone. Three years later, I...

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Aqeela Sherrills 

You probably don't know Robert Gilman's name, but you should

Jan. 17 marks the fourth year that U.S. citizen Robert Gilman has spent in Russian custody. President Donald Trump has made the return of Americans...

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Eric Lebson 

Trump's Kennedy Center stunt is only the beginning

There is no facet of American life that President Donald Trump hasn’t touched in the past year. That includes the art world – even when Trump isn’t...

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Sara Pequeño 

Iran's currency collapse is only part of the story

Iran’s latest protest wave did not begin as a grand ideological crusade. It began the way breakdowns often do, with daily life becoming unlivable....

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Alex Vatanka

A frog leg festival is as American as it gets

For a small town located on Florida's interior, Fellsmere is packed with history. The city of 5,000, about 100 miles southeast of Orlando and 150...

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Blake Fontenay 

As more Americans disapprove, I'm sure history will remember ICE fondly

To all the federal agents who make up U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection – you know, the ones out...

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Rex Huppke

Trump doesn't want de-escalation. He needs ICE to provoke the fight.

Donald Trump's second term as president has often seemed like a prolonged series of slapdash decisions that rarely demonstrated any serious...

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Chris Brennan 

The Verizon outage revealed a hard truth about me

If you wondered what it might be like to be in the middle of a blackout during an impending apocalypse, look no further than the events of Jan. 14....

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Nicole Russell

The Senate has a chance to stand up to Trump. I'm not optimistic.

The news that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is under investigation by the Department of Justice has sparked concern among many Americans,...

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Dace Potas 

In Minnesota, ICE isn't the problem. It's defiance.

As I watch the firestorm continue to rage between Minnesota lawmakers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, I miss former President Barack Obama...

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Nicole Russell

Republicans whine about cancel culture, then they censor the classics

A famous section of Plato’s “Symposium,” in which the Greek playwright Aristophanes describes how humans were split by the gods and spend part of...

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Sara Pequeño 

My family fled Iran. Staying silent only helps the regime.

For decades, I carried anger and heartbreak about Iran so deep I thought it had become an unmovable part of me. Watching the current protests has...

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Rebecca Morrison

What our daughter endured isn't isolated. Supreme Court can stop it.

Nobody told us. Our family was still celebrating the great accomplishment of our oldest daughter, Adaleia. She had made her middle-school track...

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Holden And Abby Cross 

Trump doesn't know how to fix America's housing crisis

Heading into the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump seems intent on addressing the “affordability crisis” that he once claimed didn’t...

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Dace Potas 

Mass killings have plummeted, but we can't ignore sensible gun safety

In what may surprise many Americans, 2025 ended with fewer mass killings ‒ defined as assaults resulting in four or more victim fatalities ‒ than...

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