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OPINION: Trump’s tough tariff talk falls flat on everyone, except his fans

Perhaps, as some suggest, Trump was just playing the bluffing bully — one of his favorite professional wrestling poses. If he’s serious about imposing tariffs on America’s biggest trading partners, we’ll end up paying for them in the form of higher prices.

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OPINION: 2025 could get pretty trippy

If he becomes secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be in a position to alter the generally prohibitionist attitudes within such agencies and clear the way for reformists to start making serious progress on psychedelics. 

OPINION: If it’s not guaranteed, it’s gone

While I trust that our fairly elected officials will continue to appropriately fund our libraries, I fear the motives of future politicians who don’t comprehend the value of libraries. Because as we as a country know all too well, if the law does not guarantee something, it will be gone.

OPINION: The disappearing partisan voter

We may have to confront the possibility that our two-party system is doing an abhorrent job of representing most people’s political views with a binary “us or them” approach to today’s complex amalgamation of social and economic challenges. 

OPINION: No hope — but there will be change

According to his supporters, “We already know what kind of president he will be because he already served.” Surely he won’t do anything differently this time around than he did last time around. Certainly his allies won’t. Certainly.

OPINION: Election Day doesn’t have to be a week long

Nonetheless, even while discounting the howls of online trolls and purveyors of election fraud myths, there’s something inherently wrong about an election process that takes days on end to announce official results.

Oracle explains cracked crystal ball

I didn’t believe the numbers would hold as much given the knowledge I have and past performances of The Reid Machine to turn them around. After all, they had a four presidential cycle winning streak.

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