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A burned Tesla vehicle at a collision center in Las Vegas that also has been vandalized.

OPINION: We don’t live in normal times

Regardless of how one might feel about Musk, Trump or those who oppose them, the recent spate of attacks against the world’s most popular electric vehicles should be a reminder that our current era of division is on the brink of devolving further into chaos.

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Elon Musk speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press)

OPINION: Amodei is right — DOGE is out of control

Now, how did someone who may or may not be in charge of a federal agency tasked solely with modernizing federal technology gain the power to control and dictate personnel policy to the entire executive branch?

Led by the Nevada Graduate Student Workers — a collective of graduate assistants at the University of Nevada, Reno seeking to improve working conditions — more than 60 students, faculty and staff members protest the University’s decision to drop its indoor mask mandate Feb. 14, 2022. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)

OPINION: The kids are absolutely not alright

You thought that maybe you could get away with saying that criticism of a state, acting in the world among the family of nations, did not equate to blood libel or essentialist hate. You’d figured these were ideas that ... could be voiced in a free society. You were quite wrong.

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