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Wildlife refuge must be protected from Alaska’s greed

Opinion: By Allen E. SMITH CQ-Roll Call President Barack Obama showed great leadership in announcing his


TPP a giant trade flim-flam

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords All right boys and girls, gather ’round and I’ll tell you the story


Who says economics is hard?

Opinion: WASHINGTON Every day the Chinese go to work, Americans get a raise: Chinese workers, many earning


Palestinian state inevitable, despite the election in Israel

Opinion: By Rekha Basu Des Moines Register It might have been the quickest and most self-serving reversal


Railroads pose a danger

Opinion: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: It’s going to take years before tens of thousands of the tankers that carry


From US to Israel with (tough) love

Opinion: When President Obama began his second term — the time presidents traditionally build foreign policy


Legacy of value to the world

Opinion: It is not often that the leader of a small city-state — in this case, Singapore — gets an


Pennsylvanian is changing the lives of Afghan women

Opinion: Many Afghan women worry their recent gains will be lost after the last U.S. troops leave. But the


America’s system of reporting its dead needs a major tuneup

Editorial: 222Twain’s 19th century frustration over some sloppy news reporting has snowballed into a 21st-


Fact from fiction on race

Opinion: By Michael Dobie Newsday I recently wrote about my frustration with calls for a national


Toughen Ohio’s seat-belt law

Opinion: Columbus Dispatch: Ohioans’ ranking, again, among the states where people are least likely to wear


On TPP, Obama needs GOP

Opinion: Orange County [Calif.] Register: President Barack Obama has gotten into yet another political


Medical device tax is rash

Opinion: By Mary Woolley and Gregory Sorensen CQ-Roll Call Investment in medical innovation, including


South Range BOE in violation of state law with appointment

Editorial: Members of the South Range Board of Education would do well to go back to square one in filling the


Can anyone around here pass a law?

Opinion: WASHINGTON As if more proof were needed about congressional dysfunction, witness the spectacle of