Tag : opinion

The Afghan War was bipartisan, multi-decade, multi-trillion-dollar misadventure doomed almost from the start | Columns | Orlando

On Nov. 2, 2001, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, one of the world’s most influential columnists, wrote, “A month…

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To unfuck the planet’s future, America will need to fix its failing democracy | Columns | Orlando

The 3,949-page report the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released on Aug. 9 leaves little room for optimism: Things are…

3 years ago

Floridians are getting sick and dying because Ron DeSantis won’t adapt or admit to reality | Columns | Orlando

On paper, George McClellan was as good a commander as the U.S. had available in 1861. But he was reluctant…

3 years ago

Letters to the editor: DeSantis has failed Florida ‘bigly’ | First Words | Orlando

The hyperpartisan rhetoric Gov. DeSantis proliferates on the national and local stage is destroying America and the concept of mutual…

3 years ago

Crackpot Facebook pages are fueling anti-vaccine fervor, but allowing the White House to regulate tech is a Very Bad Idea | Columns | Orlando

Though Voltaire never said, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to…

3 years ago

Florida Gov. DeSantis and Texas Gov. Abbott are in a race to the bottom trying to capture the MAGA zeitgeist | Columns | Orlando

click to enlarge Abbott photo: Leonard Zhukovsky; DeSantis photo: Carrington Tatum …

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Conservatives now use the label ‘critical race theory’ to describe any conversation about race that makes them uncomfortable | Columns | Orlando

If covering the Trump administration was like drinking water from a fire hydrant, analyzing the Biden era has been like…

3 years ago