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		<title><![CDATA[Mark Z. Barabak: Three wrongs don't make a right in case of election denier and Colorado governor]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's entirely possible — as hard as it may be to conceive in these
deeply
tribal, us-vs.-them times — for two competing notions to be
true.

Tina Peters personally enriched
herself and betrayed the public trust by perpetrating a harebrained
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    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Tens of billions lost each year in US welfare programs -- and we're not even measuring it all]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year’s welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota made headlines for
its brazen nature and massive scale. But it’s only part of the story.
Far more money slips through the cracks in the welfare system each year.
No outrage ensues — but given ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206441</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[COUNTERPOINT: Our wars haven't been worth it, and not just in Iran]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Memorial Day approaches, polls show nearly
two-thirds of U.S. voters oppose the war against Iran. They’re
right. After decades of war since 9/11, Americans now largely agree: War
isn’t worth it.

The Iran war has killed thousands of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206440</link>
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    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michael Hiltzik: Justice Dept. attack on UCLA and other med schools shows it has no idea what makes a good doctor]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has stepped up its assault on U.S. medical
schools in recent days with stern letters to
the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on May 6 and a
similar missive to the Yale School of Medicine last Thursday.

Both letters...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206439</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Most college degrees still carry a financial benefit]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many high school students, a career in the trades has become more
attractive due to the soaring cost of a college education and the
looming disruption of artificial intelligence in the white-collar world.
This path is indeed a worthwhile ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206438</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[POINT: War can be justified, but only as a last resort]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the United States confronts the growing danger posed by Iran’s
terrorist regime, Americans are again faced with hard questions about
war and its costs. Iran’s leaders have funded terror, threatened
allies, murdered dissidents and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206437</link>
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    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Beth Kowitt: DEI isn't dead. But it's not really alive, either]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports of the death of DEI in corporate America have been greatly
exaggerated.

Or at least that’s what a new study from Catalyst and New York
University’s School of Law’s Meltzer Center for Diversity,
Inclusion, and Belonging suggests. In ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206431</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ronald Brownstein: Redistricting is inverting the founders' vision for the House]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[To view the rapidly escalating redistricting war between the parties
as a typical partisan squabble is to miss the full magnitude of what’s
unfolding.

A convergence of events has guaranteed that by 2028, virtually every
state, whether red or ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4206377</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: San Diego mosque shooting follows increased Islamophobic rhetoric]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Muslim Americans are fearful following a shooting at the Islamic
Center of San Diego on Monday that left three people dead, in addition
to the two gunmen. Investigators reportedly found hate speech and anti-Islamic
writing inside the vehicle ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205954</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: AI anxiety won't be eased by universal basic income]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a palpable fear among American workers that AI is coming for
their jobs. The answer to that fear, as I’ve argued, is to make job
loss less scary by building a new unemployment program. An overhaul is
long overdue, and it would help not ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205460</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Freed by Trump, the Jan. 6 criminals are preying on children and others]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there’s a defining characteristic of President Donald Trump’s
second term, it’s the tendency to treat big, irreversible decisions
like impulse buys at a Ralphs checkout counter.

You can see this dynamic everywhere, from the Iran war to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205356</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: The myth of rally round the flag]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is commonly held wisdom that the American people unite behind
their president in times of crisis. This “rally round the flag”
effect describes boosts in presidential popularity that bridge the
partisan divide. Public opinion on the war with...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205355</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: A failed president and his edifice complex]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In September 1941, the death of a family member prompted President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt to say how he should be remembered.

One of America’s greatest presidents wanted only a plain block of
stone, about the size of his desk, to be placed ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205354</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Ensure that California's journalism fund supports key players]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[California is beginning to address the crisis facing local journalism
by distributing nearly $20 million this year to local news
organizations. But the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic
Development is about to fumble the opportunity by ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205351</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: At college graduation, let everyone speak their minds]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know who you are.

When someone you like is censored, you get up in arms. But when the
other side is muzzled, you sit on your hands.

It’s the oldest trick in the hypocrite’s playbook: free speech
for me but not for thee. And we’ve seen ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205350</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mary Ellen Klas: A fix for gerrymandering both parties could love]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[America’s political landscape has become a stinking mess. More and
more states are joining the race to the bottom to gerrymander away the
power of their voters. But we don’t have to hold our noses any longer
— there’s a fix in sight. And ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205347</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Chinese oppression is a personal affront to all people]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2024, I began working with former Kansas Gov. and
Sen. Sam Brownback on a book—it was released last week—about the
struggle for religious freedom in China.

I assumed it would be just another gig, nothing more.

Religion had ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205345</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gustavo Arellano: Spencer Pratt's Make LA Great Again acolytes and their dark vision of the city]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — If anyone needs the axiom "Tell me who you're
with, and I'll tell you who you are" whispered to them every
morning as a reminder to do better, it's Spencer Pratt.

Can someone do that ASAP, por favor?

Instead of holding events ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205307</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michael Hiltzik: A surge in Nevada data center construction threatens the electricity supply for 49,000 Californians]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those big data centers being built for artificial intelligence firms
are in bad odor nationwide.

Seven in 10 Americans oppose projects in their local communities,
according to a recent Gallup poll. More than a dozen, valued at
some $64 billion, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205306</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Forty years after Chernobyl, war threatens a new nuclear disaster in Ukraine]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power
plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at
the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident was caused by
a combination of design flaws of the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4205302</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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