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Harrop: Ask gardeners you know if they think rabbits are cute

While they’re breeding — well — like rabbits in most of the U.S., disease is killing them in…

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Schwab: Trump’s bad, but Barr ties to make it all look legal

The AG’s bowdlerizing of the Mueller report was just the first in Barr’s parade of DOJ injustices.

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Saunders: Trump’s voters aren’t dying to see him in person

Low turnout at his Tulsa rally should tell him what many supporters know: He needs to take this…

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Schwab: Tulsa rally distilled Trump’s term to basic beliefs

A nearly empty arena still packed supporters shoulder-to-shoulder, unmasked and loyal to the end.

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Saunders: Trump, Scott voice of reason on police reforms

Rather than embracing real reforms, Democrats are looking only to take advantage of the division.

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Harrop: Trump’s poor polling shows a nation ready for change

The public knows the White House has mishandled the pandemic and George Floyd’s murder.

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Burke: Snohomish dodged tragedy and lawsuits by hair trigger

The mix of guns, beer, politics and rumor could have been costly in several ways for the city.

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Schwab: Credulous leave selves open to being led by deceitful

Cowed into ignoring facts and education, they’ve opened the door to the nation’s enemies.

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Saunders: Academic freedom threatened in social justice war

A UCLA professor is under fire for his response to a request to give his black students a…

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Harrop: ‘Defund the Police’ talk could hijack needed reforms

Abolishing police departments has little support, even among Democrats. And it could cost them votes.

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Schwab: If Antifa hadn’t existed, Trump would have invented it

Essentially, he has, talking up the non-organization as a threat for his followers to rally against.

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Saunders: Can anyone feel safe amid the arson and looting?

The protests have been defended as ‘mostly peaceful.’ So peaceful that we can now defund the police?

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Burke: A bolt worked for Saul, Sgt. York; why not Trump?

Hopes for our nation may rest with a ‘Road to Damascus’ moment for Trump’s MAGA-hatted supporters.

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Schwab: Trump won’t address racism, so that work is left to us

Unwilling and incapable to unite us, Trump uses the unrest to his benefit. What’s our response?

Editorial: To restart the economy we need cash and childcare

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Editorial: To restart the economy we need cash and childcare

Congress needs to extend economic stimulus support to individuals, businesses and local governments.

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Harrop: Chafing at Covid-19 restrictions? Consider Sweden

The Scandinavian nation chose not to lock down; it now has a higher pandemic death rate than the…

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Saunders: Trump puts his vindictiveness on full tweet

Come the election, will his supporters recall his accomplishments or the collateral damage from his rage?

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Harrop: Central Park confrontation provides stark contrast

Faced with a threat, Christian Cooper put self-control on display in reaction to Amy Cooper’s anger.

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Schwab: It’s not fraud but the voters’ will that Trump fears

If mail-in ballots’ record in this state doesn’t convince, his objections to fact-checking should.

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Harrop: Pandemic may have grounded ‘snowbirds’ for good

Those with second homes are reluctant to return to cities, bringing new conflicts and considerations.