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“Of course you’re going to root for the American team. If anybody said any different,

Opinion: “Of course you’re going to root for the American team. If anybody said any different, they’d be


Scripps Howard: The 2014 Winter Olympics are to be held in the aging Russian Black Sea resort of

Opinion: Scripps Howard: The 2014 Winter Olympics are to be held in the aging Russian Black Sea resort of


Is Russia headed for another hard landing?

Opinion: Russia’s victory in Georgia is payback for years of geopolitical irrelevance, for Moscow’s retreat


Iraq awash in oil money but it’s still tapping U.S.

Editorial: At the very least, the Bush administration owes it to the families of the 4,000-plus Americans who


Gas more affordable now than in the ’60s

Opinion: Barack Obama thinks the government should intervene on gas prices to “give families some relief,”


China’s future is clouded by uncertainty

Opinion: What will the dragon breathe in the years after the 2008 Summer Olympics conclude? Will it be


Why Youngstown is dying

Opinion: Why Youngstown is dying EDITOR: After reading an Aug. 5 news article on the 10 fastest dying


Russians aiming for resurgence in Georgia

Opinion: WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1998, I was reporting from Georgia, the Caucasus state now dominating


A church goes to the well

Opinion: A church goes to the well EDITOR: Clink, clank, squeak, clink, clank, squeak, buzz, groan. A


Russia seizes an opportunity to discourage Western drift

Editorial: Russia seizes an opportunity to discourage Western drift Based on recent events in Georgia,


Like the heat, kids’ weight rising in summer

Opinion: Two things spike at this time of year: the heat and, apparently, our schoolchildren’s weight. The


History has a lesson for today’s world

Opinion: It is said that you can line up all the world’s economists end-to-end and still never reach a


America a bystander in Russia’s invasion

Opinion: WASHINGTON — Asked in 1957 what would determine his government’s course, Harold Macmillan, Britain’s


“The security of our peacekeepers and civilians has been restored. The aggressor has been

Opinion: “The security of our peacekeepers and civilians has been restored. The aggressor has been punished


Unions want to end secret ballot voting

Opinion: We take it for granted that a vote means a secret ballot but it was not always that way. Moreover,