OPINION: The media needs to get over its obsession with Trump

The media fixates on the lurid personal details of Donald Trump’s administration, while ignoring other stories of much greater importance.

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OPINION: Let’s focus on governing instead of campaigning

On New Year’s Eve, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, announced her intention to run for president — a whopping 673 days before Election Day. In less than a month, more than five other major candidates have followed suit. For the next two years, coverage of their campaigns will crowd the airwaves.

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OPINION: Every Titanic has its iceberg: Trump will regret removing Sessions

A gigantic ship, christened with so much promise, is on its maiden voyage. It’s billed as unsinkable, so much so that it’s almost blasphemous to even suggest this ship could sink, so much so that no one’s bothered to check if there are enough lifeboats. But every Titanic has its

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OPINION: CNN’s Jim Acosta suffers the negligence of a post-truth politician

In an ironic turn, President Donald Trump barred CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta on account of supreme insolence. Silly though it may be, the danger of a disconnected post-truth politics, where emotional appeals supersede facts and reason, is that a free society cannot long survive untruth and rampant distrust.

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OPINION: Focus on the facts, not the fear

The U.S. military has 2,000 troops stationed in Syria and 5,200 stationed in Iraq, according to recent estimates. In Afghanistan, the United States has another 14,000 troops deployed. Just days before the midterm election, a deployment of an additional 5,200 troops arrived at the Mexico border to prepare for the

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OPINION: Pitzer’s response to Trump’s trans memo was too little, too slow

It’s my third year writing an article for Transgender Day of Remembrance. I plan to keep writing them as long as I’m here and the Editorial Board is willing to publish them. This year’s article is coming early, but not for positive reasons. I, unfortunately, must address the memo published

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OPINION: Walker Wall and Pittsburgh: How can our community proceed?

Last week, two other Jewish students and I painted the words “Antisemitism exists. Acknowledge it” in big black letters, along with two blue Stars of David, on Pomona College’s Walker Wall, a space dedicated to free speech. Less than a day later, part of our message and one star were

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