Opinion and Editorial

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For Hillary, questions still swirl

Opinion: WASHINGTON For what she says is the sake of “convenience” — who wants to have to fiddle with two


Justice Dept. won’t prosecute but finds a great deal to decry

Editorial: Recent actions by the U.S. Justice Department regarding investigations of wrongdoing and racial


US using a double standard

Opinion: By Miguel Tinker Salas Tribune News Service The U.S. reaction to events in Vene-zuela has been


Netanyahu undercuts Iran goal

Opinion: Benjamin Netanyahu did a disservice to the U.S.-Israel alliance and the goal of preventing an


Spirit of cooperation could return to divided Congress

Opinion: Reducing global poverty. Limiting the risk of climate change. Improving education. Lofty goals for


Energy boom pays dividends

Opinion: By Andrew Garfield The Philadelphia Inquirer This year, America’s most powerful foreign-policy


GOP key to passage of trade pact

Opinion: WASHINGTON Michael Froman received from a Harvard Law School classmate, Barack Obama, a job that


Mayor McNally did right thing in rejecting 20 Federal Place bid

Editorial: Although Youngstown MAYOR John A. McNally is adamant that city government should not be a


Guns no longer ‘last resort’

Opinion: By John M. CRISP Tribune News Service We invent the tools that we use to create the world we


Hillary’s sad lack of judgment

Opinion: Newsday: Hillary Clinton’s unseemly decision to forgo using an official government email account


Congress should debate trade agreement before OK’ing it

Opinion: By Robert Reich and Richard Trumka Los Angeles Times This spring, President Barack Obama and


Pa. governor’s moratorium on executions triggers battle

Opinion: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case filed by Philadelphia District Attorney


US retreats on civil rights

Opinion: By David A. LOVE Tribune News Service Half a century after the Selma march, the United States is


What was Sciortino ‘buying’?

Opinion: That question immediately came to mind when The Vindicator revealed that outgoing Mahoning County


HB 4: A matter of life or death

Editorial: Hyperbole from overzealous editorial writers aside, scant few public-policy debates legitimately