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Opinion

Almanac for Nov. 7, 2025

Local columns

Today is Friday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2025. There are 54 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first woman elected to either chamber of Congress. Also on this date: In 1917, ...

There’s a slippery slope that is gerrymandering

Editorial

The gerrymandering doom spiral is gaining downward momentum, exactly as expected. Virginia is poised to become the second state, after California, where Democrats will seek to unravel reforms that took redistricting out of the hands of partisans. That’s in response to similar Republican ...

Tucker Carlson outdoes himself

Local columns

Nick Fuentes hit the jackpot. The white-nationalist influencer made it on the "Tucker Carlson Show," the nation's foremost vehicle for laundering noxious ideas into the conservative mainstream. Fuentes is a Holocaust-denier and self-avowed racist whose goal is to remake the right in his ...

Conservative justices appear skeptical of Trump’s tariffs

Local columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical on Wednesday about President Donald Trump 's ability to unilaterally impose far-reaching tariffs, putting at risk a cornerstone of his agenda in the biggest legal test yet of his unprecedented presidency. Three ...

Almanac for Nov. 6, 2025

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Today is Thursday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2025. There are 55 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected president of the United States as he defeated John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen ...