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Stiehm: A solar eclipse for the common good

I left the house at high noon. Outdoors, Washington dressed in light spring green with splashes of pink cherry trees. The sun shone, no cloud cover. We earthlings had our eyes on the sky, from Texas to Maine. A solar eclipse was landing. That was the path of "totality," a harmonic convergence ...

McCaughey: Teach migrant children English – bilingual ed is a scam

New York City, Denver, Chicago and other cities are urgently recruiting bilingual education teachers as the children of migrants enroll in school. Bilingual ed will doom most of these kids to failure. All too often it's an educational ghetto, producing dropouts who can't speak English and face ...

Robbins: Talking heads hand out hogwash on Gaza

MSNBC's talk show "Morning Joe" is catnip for political junkies, especially those who detest Donald Trump. Hundreds of thousands of us, our body clocks by now conditioned to wake in time to grab coffee and hop on the treadmill just before 6 a.m., start each weekday with predictable, comfortable ...

Guest opinion: In this economy, who can afford love?

He checked off all the boxes. “Green flags” flew from the restaurant to a city park bench in Gallivan Plaza, under a street lamp and a small maple tree. We sat on the bench and continued to chat excitedly about our shared philosophies. He checked off all the boxes except one: I can’t ...