2+ week, 5+ day ago   (450+ words) “You are entitled to your opinion,” the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said. “But you are not entitled to your own facts.” For 40 years now, I’ve been opining about politics and public policy while also trying to lean against…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (541+ words) On Aug. 22, a new set of U.S. tariffs went into effect. Those tariffs charge American buyers of Canadian goods — 569 categories of stuff including dairy, alcohol, electronics, furniture, building materials and other items amounting to a usual annual value of nearly $25 billion…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (332+ words) One of the most compelling parts of Stephanie Slade’s invaluable new book Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right is her discussion of J.D. Vance’s political transformation. Once he entered electoral politics, however, J.D. Vance changed…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (395+ words) In late 1861, Union soldiers in Bloomfield, Missouri, found the local newspaper’s office empty and decided to put it to good use. Stars and Stripes covered the activities of the three Illinois regiments. Their commander in chief, of course, was U.S....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (281+ words) Some of today’s most difficult moral conversations are challenging not because we lack conviction, but because they concern human lives that are easier to debate from a distance. The complexities of the conversation become harder to reconcile when you sit…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (866+ words) LUCAMA — Congressman Greg Murphy, R-Greenville, met with farmers and farming partners during a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at Scott Farms to kick off a full day of touring agricultural producers in Wilson County. Murphy, who is running for reelection…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (434+ words) South Korean’s President Lee Jae Myung used the occasion of the country’s Liberation Day, which marks the end of Japan’s colonial rule, to propose to North Korea that the two Koreas officially end the state of war between them that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (540+ words) It may or may not be apocryphal, but there is an infamous World War II-era quote attributed to Russian dictator Josef Stalin, in which he responded to the suggestion that the leader of the Catholic church might be able to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (486+ words) WILSON — Prosecutors have dismissed 200 charges of identity theft, obtaining property by false pretenses, insurance fraud and practicing medicine without a license against a Wilson County woman only to indict her on 24 new charges in connection with the same set of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (460+ words) Trump’s reason for supposedly, and in unspecified ways, downsizing the annual “Ulchi Freedom Shield” exercise is that South Korea has been insufficiently supportive of his war against Iran. That doesn’t seem like a very good reason … but there ARE good…...